auditory learning

Examples of auditory learning in the following topics:

• Effective Teaching Strategies

  • One conceptualization of different styles of learning identifies three main modalities: visual learning, auditory learning, and kinesthetic learning.
  • Auditory learning is a learning style in which a person learns through listening.
  • An auditory learner depends on hearing and speaking as a main way of learning.
  • Auditory learners must be able to hear what is being said in order to understand and may have difficulty with instructions that are written.
  • Teachers might use these techniques to instruct auditory learners: verbal direction, group discussions, verbal reinforcement, group activities, reading aloud, and putting information into a rhythmic pattern such as a rap, poem, or song.

• Applications of Psychological Theories to the Life of a Student

  • People also learn in a variety of ways.
  • Styles of learning are generally grouped into three primary categories: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
  • Knowing your strongest learning type can help you learn in the most effective way; depending on your learning style, you'll want to tweak your study skills to get the most of your education.
  • Auditory learners understand concepts best by listening; many will record a lecture and play it back to further understand the lesson.
  • Many auditory learners will read aloud and tend to do well on oral, rather than written, exams.

• Cooperative Learning Benefits in Mrs. Solomon's Classroom

  • Cooperative learning also helps reduce classroom disruptions because students are allowed to socialize during the learning process.
  • Cooperative learning helps students learn language better than the drill and practice of traditional language training.
  • Cooperative learning also accommodates learning style differences among students because they are utilizing each of the three main learning styles: kinesthetic, auditory and visual.
  • Material presented by the instructor is both auditory and visual, and students working together use kinesthetic abilities by working with hands-on activities.
  • Discussing issues within the groups further enhances verbal skills, and class presentation of group findings helps to reinforce visual and auditory skills (Midkiff & Thomasson, 1993).

• Basic Principles of Classical Conditioning

  • Classical conditioning is a form of learning whereby a conditioned stimulus (CS) becomes associated with an unrelated unconditioned stimulus (US), in order to produce a behavioral response known as a conditioned response (CR).
  • The conditioned response is the learned response to the previously neutral stimulus.
  • After some time, the dog learned to associate the ringing of the bell with food and to respond by salivating.
  • When a dog hears a buzzer and at the same time sees food, the auditory stimuli activates the associated neural pathways.
  • However, since these pathways are being activated at the same time as the other neural pathways, there are weak synapse reactions that occur between the auditory stimuli and the behavioral response.

• Basic Principles of Classical Conditioning: Pavlov

  • Ivan Pavlov's research on classical conditioning profoundly informed the psychology of learning and the field of behaviorism.
  • The conditioned response is the learned response to the previously neutral stimulus.
  • They had learned to associate the sound of the buzzer with being fed.
  • When a dog hears a buzzer and at the same time sees food, the auditory stimulus activates the associated neural pathways.
  • However, because these pathways are being activated at the same time as the other neural pathways, there are weak synapse reactions that occur between the auditory stimulus and the behavioral response.

• Learning Disabilities and Special Education

  • There are a variety of learning disabilities that require special assistance in order to help children learn effectively.
  • Certain laws and policies are designed to help children with learning disabilities obtain an education equivalent to their non-disabled peers.
  • Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is considered a type of learning disability.
  • This includes difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, processing speed, auditory short-term memory, and/or language skills or verbal comprehension.
  • Discuss ways special education can meet the needs of students with different types of learning disabilities

• Development of Hearing and Balance

  • The human inner ear develops during week four of embryonic development from the auditory placode, a thickening of the ectoderm that gives rise to the bipolar neurons of the cochlear and vestibular ganglions .
  • As the auditory placode invaginates towards the embryonic mesoderm, it forms the auditory vesicle or otocysts.
  • The auditory vesicle will give rise to the utricluar and saccular components of the membranous labyrinth.
  • The utricular division of the auditory vesicle also responds to angular acceleration, as well as the endolymphatic sac and duct that connect the saccule and utricle.
  • Similarly, many studies have supported a correlation between the type of auditory stimuli present in the early postnatal environment and the development on the topographical and structural development of the auditory system.

• Introduction to Memory Encoding

  • Acoustic encoding is the use of auditory stimuli or hearing to implant memories.
  • State-dependent learning is when a person remembers information based on the state of mind (or mood) they are in when they learn it.
  • Retrieval cues are a large part of state-dependent learning.
  • For example, if a person listened to a particular song while learning certain concepts, playing that song is likely to cue up the concepts learned.
  • Smells, sounds, or place of learning can also be part of state-dependent learning.

• Strategies for Improving Memory Quality and Duration

  • By creating additional links between one memory and another, more familiar memory works as a cue for the new information being learned.
  • A mnemonic device is a learning technique that aids learning, usually through association.
  • Examples of mnemonics include short poems, acronyms , and memorable phrases; however there are many types that span auditory, visual, and kinesthetic forms.
  • This is also true of other states, such as intoxication or even being in the same environment as where the information was initially learned.
  • Once you are actually in the first stage of sleep, there is no real learning going on because it is hard to consolidate memories during sleep (which is one reason why we tend to forget most of our dreams).

• Introduction to the Process and Types of Memory

  • Two other types of sensory memory have been extensively studied: echoic memory (the auditory sensory store) and haptic memory (the tactile sensory store).
  • Long-term memories are all the memories we hold for periods of time longer than a few seconds; long-term memory encompasses everything from what we learned in first grade to our old addresses to what we wore to work yesterday.
  • These memories are not based on consciously storing and retrieving information, but on implicit learning.
  • Often this type of memory is employed in learning new motor skills.
  • An example of implicit learning is learning to ride a bike: you do not need to consciously remember how to ride a bike, you simply do.