Learning: Nineteen Scenarios from Everyday

This book is a systematic introduction to learning psychology. It describes, analyzes and explains learning by means of nineteen scenarios from everyday situations. The reader may therefore connect theoretical considerations with experiences he or she can easily follow. Several scenarios stem from family situations, others from school and business, and still others refer to very individual learning processes. Having worked through the nineteen scenarios the reader will be acquainted with the important learning theories: behavioristic, cognitive, social-cognitive as well as the Gestaltists'.

Preface

vii

Introduction: What This Book Intends and What It Does Not

1

(5)

The Fear of White Lab Coats: Classical Conditioning

6

(12)

A Learned Heart Attack? The Problem of Extinction

18

(7)

The World Fair's Nails: Learning by Trial and Error?

25

(14)

An Untidy Child Learns to Be Neat: Signals for New Habits

39

(7)

Michael the Troublemaker: Operant Conditioning and Sociocognitive Learning

46

(18)

How Rita Unlearns to Like to Draw: On Reinforcements and Rewards

64

(12)

Waiting and Doing Without: Learning to Control One's Own Impulses and Behavior

76

(19)

Learning Prosocial Behavior: Sociocognitive Processes and the Acquisition of a Social Value System

95

(9)

Stop Test Anxiety! More than Just Desensitization

104

(16)

A Group Leader Learns to Cope with Stress: Cognitive Behavior Training and the Development of Action-Regulating Cognitions

120

(15)

Learned Helplessness in a Secondary-School Pupil: Noncontingencies and Causal Attribution

135

(12)

Learning to Juggle: The Acquisition of a ``Juggling Grammar''

147

(20)

Learning from an Illustrated Text: The Construction of Mental Models

167

(31)

Learning Vocabulary: Self-Regulated, Adaptive Learning

198

(20)

Learning to Count: Constructing Numeric Networks. Piaget's Genetic Epistemology Approach -- and Beyond

218

(20)

Visual Learning in Geometry? The Conceptual and Figural Components of Learning

238

(19)

A Taxi Driver's Geographical Knowledge of a Town: The Construction of ``Cognitive Maps''

257

(16)

Playing with Matches: The Gestalt Theory, or Insightful Learning

273

(14)

Learning to Play Chess: The Construction of Complex Operational and Goal Systems

287

(21)

Bibliography

308

(13)

Author Index

321

(4)

Subject Index

325

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