Learning / Sarnoff A. Mednick

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1964Description: x, 118 pages ; 24 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 1060 .M488 1964
Contents:
1. Some examples of research on learning -- 2. The Language and methods of learning -- 3. Simple learning: classical and operant conditioning -- 4. Complex habits -- 5. Motivation and learning -- 6. Transfer of training -- 7. Remembering and forgetting.
Summary: The first chapter of this book describes training a primitive flat worm to respond to a light with body contraction. To, me teaching this little beast to twitch on signal is still a bit of miracle. It is however, only a hint of the potential power given by the knowledge of the basic principles of learning.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Gen. Ed - CEAS GC LB 1060 .M488 1964 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000012663

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Some examples of research on learning -- 2. The Language and methods of learning -- 3. Simple learning: classical and operant conditioning -- 4. Complex habits -- 5. Motivation and learning -- 6. Transfer of training -- 7. Remembering and forgetting.

The first chapter of this book describes training a primitive flat worm to respond to a light with body contraction. To, me teaching this little beast to twitch on signal is still a bit of miracle. It is however, only a hint of the potential power given by the knowledge of the basic principles of learning.

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