ACT Research Home Page-
The ACT group is led by John Anderson at Carnegie Mellon University and
is concerned with the ACT theory and architecture of cognition. The goal
of this research is to understand how people acquire and organize knowledge
and produce intelligent behavior. The ACT-R unified theory of cognition
attempts to develop a cognitive architecture that can perform in detail
a full range of cognitive tasks. The architecture takes the form of a computer
simulation which is capable of performing and learning from the same tasks
worked on by human subjects in our laboratories.
Albert
Bandura — Dr. C. George Boeree, at Shippensburg
University, provides a short biography of Albert Bandura, describes some
of the early research in social learning, defines many of the key terms
and concepts.
Animal
Training at Sea World — How Sea World trainers
apply operant conditioning principles to train performing animals.
Primary and conditioned reinforcers, shaping, and observational learning
are among the principles that are discussed.
COGPRINTS: Cognitive
Sciences Eprint Archive - An electronic archive
for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and
many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics,
vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language,
knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology,
sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g.,
Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology,
cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions
of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to
the study of cognition.
Collaborative
learning and the Internet - Pierre Dillenbourg
and Daniel Schneider, School of Psychology and Education Sciences, University
of Geneva, Switzerland
Collaborative
Learning and Veterinary Medicine - Too many faculty
members in our Colleges of Veterinary Medicine are not really able to distinguish
between lecturing and teaching. Too often the college classroom is a place
where students are bombarded with facts from the podium that they frantically
try to copy down in their notes. Louis Schmier, a professor at Valdosta
State University, emphasizes the point this way: "there really is a hell
of a difference between a teacher and a classroom presenter." Schmier summarizes
where college pedagogy is today as follows: "Most people think that anyone
can teach. All you have to do is stand at the head of the classroom, throw
out crumbs of information in an automated lecture, and the students will
eagerly peck away and nourish their minds. I call that schooling, not education;
lecturing, not teaching. Our graduate schools train scholars and researchers
who are thrown into classrooms without guidance. It's little wonder that
most of us evolve into classroom presenters."
Contingencies
R US
- Paul Brandon's page with links to behavioral analysis sites.
Cooperative
Learning - This Education Research Consumer Guide
is produced by the Office of Research, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education.
Kurt Lewin -
The Kurt Lewin Institute is a joint venture of senior researchers in social
psychology and its applications, who are affiliated to five Dutch Universities.
Misha the Toilet-trained
Wonder Cat — Tired of cleaning that smelly old
litter box? Learn How
to Toilet-Train Your Catwith a little help from this unusual site.
Karawynn is not a behavioral psychologist, so you will have to provide
the learning theory terminology.
Negative
Reinforcement University — NRU is an interactive
environment for the study of negative reinforcement, one of the more challenging
concepts to teach and learn in Psychology. Available as either a web site
(you will need the free Shockwave, below ) or as an Adobe Acrobat document
(you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, below).
Neurosciences on the
Internet - A searchable and browsable index of
neuroscience resources available on the Internet: Neurobiology, neurology,
neurosurgery, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science sites and information
on human neurological diseases.
Operant
Conditioning and Behaviorism — An historical outline
that begins with Thorndike's trial-and-error learning, and introduces Pavlov's
classical conditioning and Skinner's operant conditioning.
Personal Construct
Psychology - The Centre for Personal Construct
Psychology is a major focal point for information and resources about George
Kelly's Personal Construct Psychology.
Positive
Reinforcement — Lyle K. Grant, at Athabasca University,
has developed this tutorial to help students understand what constitutes,
and what does not constitute, positive reinforcement. Be sure you
understand the illustrative examples before you begin the practice exercise.
Rousseau
- Émile - The on-line English translation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's
Emile or On Education, one of the most influential books in
the history of education.
Scandura's
Structural Theory - Scandura's Structural theory replaces the behaviorist
chaining process with a cognitive orientated structure.
Script Theory
(R. Schank) - "The central focus of Schank's theory has been the structure
of knowledge, especially in the context of language understanding."
The Commonwealth of Learning-
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation
created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development
and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and
technologies. COL works with Commonwealth nations to improve access to
quality education and training.
The Theory Into Practice
Database - "TIP is a tool intended to make learning
and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains
brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These
theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts."
Anchored
Instruction - "Anchored instruction
requires putting the students in the context of a problem-based story.
The students "play" an authentic role while investigating the problem,
identifying gaps to their knowledge, researching the information needed
to solve the problem, and developing solutions. For example, the students
play the role of a pilot to learn about aeronautics subject matter such
as gravity, airflow, weather concepts, and basic flight dynamics. The teacher
facilitates and coaches the students through the process."
Center for John Dewey
Studies - The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale was established in 1961 as the "Dewey
Project." In the course of collecting and editing Dewey's works, the Center
amassed a wealth of source materials for the study of America's quintessential
philosopher-educator, John Dewey. By virtue of its publications and research,
the Center has become the international focal point for research on Dewey's
life and work. Its location at the University makes it possible for visitors
to take advantage of the resources and professional expertise of
the faculty and staff of the Department of Philosophy, the College of Education,
Special Collections in Morris Library, and the Southern Illinois University
Press.
John
Dewey & F. Mathias Alexander Homepage -Dewey
met Alexander in during World War I when Alexander was visiting New York
and had his first lessons from Alexander at that time. Dewey was then in
his fifties, and he continued taking Alexander Technique lessons for the
next 35 years.
John
Dewey & the Alexander Technique - "It [the
F.M. Alexander Technique] bears the same relation to education that education
itself bears to all other human activities." --John Dewey
John
Dewey and Informal Education - "Arguably
the most influential thinker on education in the twentieth century, Dewey's
contribution lies along several fronts. His attention to experience and
reflection, democracy and community, and to environments for learning have
been seminal."
Autobiography
of C. Lloyd Morgan. In C. Murchison (Ed.), History of psychology
in autobiography (Vol. 2, pp. 237-264). Worcester, MA: Clark University
Press.Morgan, C. Lloyd. (1930).
Autobiography
of Robert M. Yerkes. In C. Murchison (Ed.), History of psychology
in autobiography (Vol. 2, pp. 381-407). Worcester, MA: Clark University
Press.Yerkes, Robert M. (1930).
Behavioural Temperaments-
"Welcome! This Page is about behavioral individuality in infants, children
and adults. It is intended as a clearinghouse for research and practical
information about temperamental characteristics to be used by parents,
students, professionals and others who have an interest in temperament."
Dialectical
Behavioral Therapy - "Marsha Linehan (1991) pioneered this treatment,
based on the idea that psychosocial treatment of those with Borderline
Personality Disorder was as important in controlling the condition as traditional
psycho- and pharmacotherapy were."
The
Relationship of Behaviorism, Neo-Behaviorism and Cognitivism to an Evangelical
Bibliology . - by Greg Herrick Watson's career
and work. The article also presents a history of psychologists' accounts
of the Albert study, focusing on the study's distortion by Watson himself,
general textbook authors, behavior therapists, and most recently, a prominent
learning theorist. The author proposes possible causes for these distortions
and analyzes the Albert study as an example of myth making in the history
of psychology."
Keywords
of Gestalt Theory - The Gestalt Theory Resources Center offers information
and links to other resources on the web about Gestalt theory in its original
sense as put forward by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, Kurt Koffka,
Kurt Lewin and other eminent Gestalt psychologists.
Wolfgang
Köhler - "German-American psychologist, one of the founders of
Gestalt psychology with Kurt Koffka. Köhler gained fame with his studies
on cognitive processing involved in problem-solving by animals. Köhler
argued that animals do not learn everything through a gradual trial-and-error
process, or stimulus-response association. His tests in Tenerife
in the 1910s with chimpanzees suggested that these animals solved problems
by understanding - like human beings, they are capable of insight learning,
the "aha!" solutions to problems. Köhler also discovered with von
Restoff the isolation effect in memory, contributed
to the theory of memory and recall, and developed a non-associationist
theory of the nature of associations."
B.F.
Skinner - Operant Conditioning - QuickTime video clip of Skinner discussing
his theory.
B.F.
Skinner Foundation - Manages Skinner's literary estate, and publishes
significant literary and scientific works in the analysis of behaviour.
Site includes information about Skinner, his work, and life
BF
Skinner - (Burrhus Frederick Skinner) elaboration
of the theory of reinforcement and his advocacy of its application to learning.
Information
Processing Theory Basics - "The information is
stored for either a brief or extended period of time, depending upon the
processes following encoding..."
Time
Article - "Jean Piaget, the pioneering Swiss philosopher
and psychologist, spent much of his professional life listening to children,
watching children and poring over reports of researchers around the world
who were doing the same. He found, to put it most succinctly, that children
don't think like grownups. After thousands of interactions with young people
often barely old enough to talk, Piaget began to suspect that behind their
cute and seemingly illogical utterances were thought processes that had
their own kind of order and their own special logic. Einstein called it
a discovery 'so simple that only a genius could have thought of it.' "
Communication
Theory: A First Look - (From the Third Edition of A First Look
at Communication Theory by Em Griffin, Ó 1997, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
This text-only version of the article appears on the World Wide Web site
www.afirstlook.com. The text version does not contain any figures. A facsimile
of the original article, which includes all figures, is also available
in PDF format.)
Subsumption
Theory - Ausubel's theory is concerned with how individuals learn large
amounts of meaningful material from verbal/textual presentations in a school
setting (in contrast to theories developed in the context of laboratory
experiments).
Social
Judgment Theory - This site is designed primarily as a companion to
A First Look at Communication Theory by Em Griffin and the Instructor's
Manual by Glen McClish and Jacqueline "Jackie" Bacon.
Collaborative
learning and the Internet - Pierre Dillenbourg
and Daniel Schneider, School of Psychology and Education Sciences, University
of Geneva, Switzerland
Collaborative
Learning and Veterinary Medicine - Too many faculty
members in our Colleges of Veterinary Medicine are not really able to distinguish
between lecturing and teaching. Too often the college classroom is a place
where students are bombarded with facts from the podium that they frantically
try to copy down in their notes. Louis Schmier, a professor at Valdosta
State University, emphasizes the point this way: "there really is a hell
of a difference between a teacher and a classroom presenter." Schmier summarizes
where college pedagogy is today as follows: "Most people think that anyone
can teach. All you have to do is stand at the head of the classroom, throw
out crumbs of information in an automated lecture, and the students will
eagerly peck away and nourish their minds. I call that schooling, not education;
lecturing, not teaching. Our graduate schools train scholars and researchers
who are thrown into classrooms without guidance. It's little wonder that
most of us evolve into classroom presenters."
Cooperative
Learning - This Education Research Consumer Guide
is produced by the Office of Research, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education.