Learning Theories and Behaviorism on Lost

No matter how many times I read about learning theories, I do not understand them completely. It's not just me though. I polled every education major and teacher on my buddy list today and not one of them knew the differences between the theories. I understand Behaviorist Learning Theory, and Constructivism because they've been smashed into my brain over and over again and I think I finally get Situated Learning Theory now, but any of the others and I'm completely lost. I made a fun inspiration though that shows basic definitions of a bunch of learning theories.


On a related note, a sneak peek of the new season of Lost last night showed a great example of behaviorism. Sawyer is in a cage with a button that has a picture of a fork and knife on it. He pushes it. A voice says, "Warning". He pushes it again. "Warning." The man in the cage next to his says, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." As he's doing this, all I can keep thinking is if he gets shocked I'm going to be so excited to see Pavlovian experiments on this show! (A little twisted I know, but hey I'm excited when I can seem intelligent^_^) Sure enough, Sawyer pushes the button again and it shocks him throwing him back against the bars of his cage. That should help Sawyer learn that pushing the button is not a good idea just as the man in the cage next to his learned before. Check it out!