Behaviorism focuses only on observable behaviors and discounts internal mental processes, defining learning as the acquisition of new behaviors based on environmental conditions. Cognitive learning theory explains thinking and mental processes that are influenced by internal and external factors to produce learning, including observing, categorizing, and generalizing about the environment. Cogenative theory is interested in how people understand material through mental processes like observing, categorizing, and generalizing information to make sense of it, seeing learning as resulting from internal mental activity rather than external stimuli.