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Groupthink and the Abilene Paradox

When faced with a difficult task, we often seek the ideas and insights of a number of individuals. Attacking a problem with a group rather than an individual provides additional perspective and an opportunity to piggy-back on each other’s ideas. Despite the popularity of using teamwork to make decisions, it may not always be the [...]

The Cognitive Approach to Learning

The cognitive approach to learning insists that even though learning can be inferred from behaviour, it is separate from the behaviour itself. It is defined as a relatively permanent change in cognition occurring as a result of experience. Learning represents a change in the content, organization, and storage of information in the brain. Individuals possess [...]

The Behavioural Approach to Learning

The behavioural approach measures learning in terms of relatively permanent changes in behaviour. It suggests that learning has only taken place if the learner displays behaviour related to the new learning. The behaviourist approach claims that the environment controls learning, in that people respond to stimuli in their environment, and their response, or behaviour, is [...]

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