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Chapter 6. Learning Theories, Models, and Applications

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  Murphy, D.J. 2003. Learning Theories, Models, and Applications. Chapter 6 in Looking Beneath the Surface of Agricultural Safety and Health, 69-80. St Joseph, Mich.: ASAE.  .(doi:10.13031/2013.12257)

This chapter explores learning theories and models, and their application to agricultural safety and health. Like behavioral theory in general, learning theory can be approached from a cognitive or a behavioral perspective, and similar to behavioral theory in general, learning theory derives a majority of its contemporary theories, models, principles and concepts from behaviorism, and more recently, cognitivism. Literature shows that learning theory quotes many of the same founding fathers, for example J.B. Watson, E.L. Thorndike, J. Dewey, B.F. Skinner and J. Piaget (e.g., Burns, 1995; Sutherland, 1997), and use many of the same underlying concepts, such as goal theory, motivation, attention and self-efficacy (e.g., Silverman & Casazza, 2000; Sinnott, 1994, Steers & Porter, 1991) as general behavioral theory. It was pointed out in the previous chapter that many principles and constructs of behaviorism and mentalism overlap and entwine.

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