Learning: Principles and Applications

by Stephen B. Klein

Principles and Applications by Stephen B. Klein provides students a current, comprehensive, and engaging introduction to the psychology of learning. Praised for its easy-to-read style and presentation of important contributions of both human and nonhuman animal research, the text helps readers understand the process of learning with coverage of classic experiments, contemporary research, real-world examples, applications, chapter-opening vignettes, and critical thinking questions. The Eighth Edition features expanded sections on theories of conditioning, a streamlined organization through two separate chapters on memory storage and retrieval, and enhanced pedagogy to better connect the material to the everyday lives of students.

Genres: Psychology

528 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1986

Reviews

[Estefan González]

Es muy interesante

[Arjun · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very good survey analysis of learning theories in human and non-human animals. LP&A is deceptively short at 400 pages of material in the 7th edition, but was probably one of the densest textbooks I've worked with and this is more a reflection of Klein than the material. There's a lot of graphs, references to hundreds of experiments and lots and lots of jargon (which you get used to).

It's certainly very comprehensive, more so than any other textbook I've seen – Klein earns 3 stars for that. I do hope there's more of an effort to make working through it less dry in the next edition (though with the pitch of "An easy-to-read overview of basic learning processes." on the cover, I somehow doubt it).

[Belle Meade School]

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