Introduction
Philosophical Approaches
Associationism (British Empiricism)
e.g., temporal
contiguity
& repetition
Structuralism
the "chemical composition" of learning
Functionalism (Functional Explanations
)
Natural Selection and Evolution
Adaptation
Theoretical Approaches to Learning
Emperimental Approaches
Radical Behaviorism
S-R or mechanistic explanations
Cognitive Behaviorism
S-O-R or cognitive explanations
teleological explanations
Methodological Behaviorism
experimental procedures
Independent Variables
Dependent Variables
Control Variables
theory building
Non-experimental Approaches
introspection
anecdotal evidence
systematic observation
Types of learning processes emphasized in this course
Non-associative learning
Event-event learning
Behavior-event learning
