The Psychology of Learning

Only a small part of learning takes place in schools. Just as a child learns to walk, talk, and handle things without the help of trained teachers, so industrial skills are normally acquired by imitation and practice.

Learning, in fact, takes place all the time, without anyone setting out either to learn or to teach.

Two psychologists discuss in this new Pelican the laws which seem to govern the process of learning in its widest sense.

The theories and models which have been based on simple learning situations are their first consideration; but they also provide a thorough survey of programmed learning techniques and the newer developments in the formal teaching of schools and universities.

Those in the front line of education are perhaps only just beginning to pay systematic attention to psychological studies of learning.

With the view it opens up of the whole field of human and animal learning, his book can be of fundamental assistance to them.