Present accomplishment and future trends in problem-solving and learning theory

"To me, one obvious criticism of what has happened in the last 25 years is the domination of theories of learning by the rat." "I predict that there will be a social revolution among students of learning wherein man re-establishes his dominance over the rat." "My prediction...

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Published in:The American psychologist 1956-06, Vol.11 (6), p.278-281
Main Author: Melton, Arthur W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal
Child Development
Cognition
Learning
Learning Theory
Problem Solving
Psychological Theories
Rats
Theoretical Problems
Trends
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Summary:"To me, one obvious criticism of what has happened in the last 25 years is the domination of theories of learning by the rat." "I predict that there will be a social revolution among students of learning wherein man re-establishes his dominance over the rat." "My prediction is . . . a frontal attack on the problem of achieving a descriptive schema for identifying samples of human learning, and for identifying primary task variables." The notion "must be overcome" that "the stimulus is a simple punctiform affair . . . that can be dealt with as though it occurred without context . . . ."
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/h0048420