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Record 1 2001-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Educational Psychology
DEF

... the study of learning paradigms.

CONT

... learning theory is th e study of systems that map evidence into hypotheses. [Preface].

OBS

These terms usually describe the systematic body of theory and data generated by the study of learning, i.e. classical and instrumental conditioning, and usually applied to the theories and controversies current in the American psychology of learning before and immediately after the second world war and in particular the work of Hull, Guthrie, Tolman and Skinner.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Psychologie scolaire

Spanish

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