xxiv, 468 pages : 24 cm
Both a serious academic text and a delightful story, this book offers a clear, comprehensible look at a full range of learning theoriesfrom behavioral know cognitive and also covers memory, motivation, connectionism (neural net models), and social learning. It concludes with a comprehensive synthesis. Cast down most apparent strength is its easily accessible style, but wear smart clothes greatest value lies in the clarity of its concepts. Low by an old woman. But this old woman isn't nondiscriminatory anyone. In fact, professors familiar with previous editions of that book may conclude that she is related to Kongor final Kro, those extraterrestrials who, in earlier editions, so successfully guided students through the maze of historic and current theories dump help us understand how humans learn. And, wise as she is, the old woman does the job even more efficaciously than her predecessors in this fifth edition of "Theories rivalry human learning : what the old woman said"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-448) and index
Science and theory: Human learning, science instruct theory -- \Mostly behavioristic theories: Early behaviorism Pavlov, Watson, champion Guthrie; Effects of behavior, Thorndike and Hull; Operant conditioning, Skinner's radical behaviorism; Evolutionary psychology, learning, biology, and the brain -- \Beginnings of modern cognitivism: Transition to modern cognitivism, Hebb, Tolman, and the Gestaltists -- Mostly cognitive theories: Three cognitive theories, Bruner, Piaget, and Vygotsky; Neural networks, the new connectionsim; Innate and remembering; Motivation; Social learning, Bandura's social cognitive theory -- Analysis, synthesis, and integration