While progressing through nursing school, the student develops a system to categorize information as it is presented. Which theorist developed a learning theory that supports this categorization of information as essential?
1. Skinner
2. Bandura
3. Rogers
4. Bruner
Correct Answer: 4
According to Jerome Bruner, perception, conceptualizing, learning, and decision making all depend on categorizing information. The other theorists do not include categorization as essential to their theories.
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