Introduction to the Theories of Learning
ISBN: 9780131147225 | 0131147226
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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Clearly written and user-friendly, this comprehensive book defines learning and shows how the learning process is studied. It places learning in an historical perspective, and provides appreciation for the figures and theories that have shaped 100 years of learning theory research.It presents essential features of the major theories of learning in the words of the theorists, introducing readers to the pioneering work of E.L. Thorndike, Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, Clark Hull, Edwin Guthrie, William Estes, the Gestalt psychologists, Jean Piaget, E... MORE
| Introduction TO Learning | |
| What Is Learning? | |
| Approaches to the Study of Learning | |
| Early Notions about Learning | |
| Predominantly Functionalistic Theories | |
| Edward Lee Thorndike | |
| Burrhus Frederick Skinner | |
| Clark Leonard Hull | |
| Predominantly Associationistic Theories | |
| Ivan Petrovich Pavlov | |
| ... MORE | |
| William Kaye Estes | |
| Predominantly Cognitive Theories | |
| Gestalt Theory | |
| Jean Piaget | |
| Edward Chace Tolman | |
| Albert Bandura | |
| A Predominantly Neurophysiological Theory | |
| Donald Olding Hebb | |
| An Evolutionary Theory | |
| Robert C. Bolles and Evolutionary Psychology | |
| Some Final Thoughts | |
| A Final Word | |
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