EIST 6101 - Adult Learning
Course Reading Guide 3
READING GUIDE
#3
ADULT LEARNING
Malcolm
S. Knowles Text 5th
Edition
Chapter #3
Text Pages 18-34
Theories
of Learning
Student Name :
Semester: ______________________________________________________________
1. Scientific theories traditionally are not derived from studying adults. Who has been studied and why are these groups traditionally researched?
2. A. Who is the first propounder of learning theory, and during what year was it developed?
B. Who is the first interpreter of learning theory, and during what year was it developed?
3.
Name the two major families of learning theory.
4.
Briefly compare and contrast the “elemental model” and the
“holistic model” of development.
5.
Who conducted the first systematic investigation, in this country, of the
phenomenon of learning?
6. A. What Russian scientist developed the concept of
conditional reflexes?
B.
Describe the concepts of reinforcement, extinction, generalization and
differentiation.
7.
What
is Edward R. Gutheries law of learning that added to the “principle of
contiguity of cue and response”?
8.
What
behaviorists developed theories that serve as the foundation of programmed
instruction?
9.
A.
Describe Clark L. Hull’s mathematico-deductive theory.
10.
How
did John Dewey’s theory of functionalism affect schoolroom practice?
11. Edward C. Tolman bridged the gap between elemental & holistic models of learning with his theory called “purposive behaviorism”. Explain how his theory connected these two models.
12.
Describe the four laws of Gestalt theorists.
13.
A. What are field theories?
B. What are some common labels given to field-theoretical approaches?
14.
Describe Piaget’s three evolutionary periods of learning.
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