Learning Theories for TeachersA technical but unpedantic tratment of prescientific and scientific theories of learning, this book guides the reader to critically deveop his own outlook and to formulate his optimum role in its promotion. The Second Edition-extensively revised, expanded, and now more readable-stresses the relationship of learning theories to teaching procedures. Such approaches as S-R conditioning and Gestalt-field theories are systematically developped and compared and their implications drawn for principales of teaching. Strenghts of each theory are pointed out, but it is left to the reader to discern the weaknesses and to make his own choice among competing psychological point of view. Included is a clear discussion of familiar topics and issues-transfert or learning, motivation, readiness, retention, review, evaluation, practice vs. repetition, and part vs. whole learning. |
Contents
Why Theories of Learning? | 3 |
Respective Learning Theories? | 14 |
Two WHAT EARLY THEORIES OF LEARNING ARE REFLECTED | 20 |
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achieve activity animals apperception aspects associationism B. F. Skinner basic behaviorists biological Chapter child classical classical conditioning classroom cognitive structure cognitive-field psychology cognitive-field theory concepts connectionism Consequently culture Educational Psychology experience experimental faculties faculty psychology field psychology foreign hull function Furthermore Gestalt-field psychologists goal Harper & Row havior Herbart Herbartian Human Behavior ideas identical elements insights interaction involved John Dewey Kurt Lewin law of effect laws learning theory Lewin means mechanistic ment mental discipline mind motivation objects observable occur one's operant conditioning organism outlook perception person physical position present principles problems psychological environment purpose race reflective teaching regard regions reinforcement relationships relativistic response S-R conditioning scientific sense situation Skinner social space specific Spence Spence's stimulus teacher theorists theory of learning thinking Thorndike Thorndike's thought tion transfer of learning understanding variables verbal York