For example, when a teacher teaches students, it is a common phenomenon to give examples first, then the students discuss, then the teacher explains and finally let the students do some exercises. Many times, students' skills are formed through repeated practice, which was emphasized in the past. The theoretical basis of this kind of learning is behavioral psychology. Looking at learning from the perspective of behavioral psychology, he thinks that learning is the formation of some connection in students' minds, and some skills are formed through repeated practice. If this practice is excessive, it will cause students' negative attitude towards learning. For example, in a class, a student missed a word "Xie" when solving a problem, so the teacher asked the students to write the word "Xie" as 1 000? This is an example published in the newspaper. This is also a kind of learning.

With the development of educational science, cognitive psychology appeared in 1980s. Cognitive psychology believes that learning is a kind of understanding, and the typical representatives are Bruner and Ausubel. Ausubel believes that learning is the substantial connection between new knowledge and the original knowledge in students' minds, and emphasizes the connection between old and new knowledge, so that students can learn for understanding and teachers can teach for understanding. Constructivist psychology holds that students interpret the contents of textbooks with their own views, thus constructing a concept and a new concept in their own minds, and this construction is synchronous with teaching, and learners' learning is completely independent. Therefore, students' learning is a process of self-construction and a learning process of exploration, research and understanding.