Sensory Theory (Sensory Stimulation Theory) - Discourses on Learning in Education

Sensory Theory (Sensory Stimulation Theory) (Dugan Laird, 1980s) – a perspective that equates learning to taking in information through the senses, positing that (for adults) 75% of learning is vision-based, 13% is hearing-based, and the 12% is distributed across the other senses.

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Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2021). “Sensory Theory (Sensory Stimulation Theory)” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.

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