There are many learning theories, although recently I have been informed of one that has been curious and that I immediately transferred to my baby's behavior regarding the attempt to walk. Although, in general, you are learning phases We can apply them to all people in any aspect of their development, from learning a language to driving a car or using a telephone.
Abraham Maslow, a humanist psychologist, proposed a conceptual system that allowed us to understand the learning of anything, based on 4 phases. These are unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competition and unconscious competition. It goes from ignorance to the total integration of learning. But let's see them one by one.
- Unconscious incompetence It occurs when we do not know that we do not know and therefore there is no concern. For example, when babies do not know they are able to turn, crawl or walk to move.
- Conscious incompetence It's when we know we don't know something. In this phase, babies who see others crawling or walking realize that they themselves cannot. Here there would be a restlessness that would boost learning: "I want to move like them."
- Finally there is the phase of unconscious competition , when we don't have to think about what we already know. In the end, learning is consolidated and walking is done unconsciously, just as adults walk.
