Theories of Human Learning: Mrs Gribbin's Cat
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 7, 10/31/2019
EAN 9781108735995, ISBN10: 1108735991
Paperback, 566 pages, 23.5 x 18.9 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Both a serious academic text and an intriguing story, this seventh edition reflects a significant update in research, theory, and applications in all areas. It presents a comprehensive view of the historical development of learning theories from behaviorist through to cognitive models. The chapters also cover memory, motivation, social learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The author's highly entertaining style clarifies concepts, emphasizes practical applications, and presents a thought-provoking, narrator-based commentary. The stage is given to Mrs Gribbin and her swashbuckling cat, who both lighten things up and supply much-needed detail. These two help to explore the importance of technology for simulating human cognitive processes and engage with current models of memory. They investigate developments in, and applications of, brain-based research and plunge into models in motivation theory, to name but a few of the adventures they embark upon in this textbook.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I. Science and Theory
1. Human learning
Part II. Mostly Behavioristic Theories
2. Early behaviorism
Pavlov, Watson, and Guthrie
3. The effects of behavior
Thorndike and Hull
4. Operant conditioning
Skinner's radical behaviorism
5. Evolutionary psychology
learning, biology, and the brain
Part III. The Beginnings of Modern Cognitivism
6. Transition to modern cognitivism
Hebb, Tolman, and the Gestaltists
Part IV. Mostly Cognitive Theories
7. Three cognitive theories
Bruner, Piaget, and Vygotsky
8. Learning and memory
9. Motivation and emotions
10. Social learning
Bandura's social cognitive theory
11. Machine learning and artificial intelligence
the future?
Part V. Summary
12. Summary, synthesis, and integration
Epilogue
Glossary
References
Name index
Subject index.