Learning
Nineteen Scenarios from Everyday Life

Table of Contents

1. Fear of white aprons - classical conditioning
2. A learned heart attack? The problem of extinction
3. The World Fair's 'magic nails' - trial and error learning?
4. An untidy child becomes tidy - signals for new habits
5. Michael remains a troublemaker - of operant conditioning and the perils of reinforcement
6. How Rita unlearns to like drawing - reinforcements are not all alike
7. Waiting and learning to do without - learning to control one's own impulses and behavior
8. Learning prosocial behaviour- social-cognitive development and the learning of social value systems
9. Don't be afraid of exams - more than just desensitization
10. How managers learn to cope with stress - cognitive behavior training and the development of action-regulating cognitions
11. Learned helplessness in a senior high school student - non-contingencies and casual attributions
12. Learning to juggle - mastering the grammar of juggling
13. Learning from text - the construction of mental models
14. Building your vocabulary - mechanical learning and the elaboration of semantic networks
15. Fontane's 'John Maynard' - on global and specific learning and memory aids
16. Learning to count: the construction of numeric networks - Piaget's theory of genetic epistemology applied
17. How concrete is concrete learning, for example in geometry? - conceptual and figural components of learning.

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