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Learning theories

Open Courseware Proprietary Educational Systems. MIT

Behaviorism

A fable.
A scientist put a laboratory mouse in a box with six rooms. The mouse soon learned the cheese was in room three. Therefore, it always ran directly to room three upon being put in the box. One day the scientist put the cheese in room five. Upon entering the box, the mouse ran directly to room three. "Hmmm...no cheese." The mouse looked around. Tried room four. No cheese. Tried room five. "Ah-ha! Cheese!"

What would a human being have done? He or she would have continued to return to room three again and again and again — expecting and then demanding cheese. "Where is my cheese!? This is where it has always been. It's supposed to be here! I want it NOW — GIVE ME MY CHEESE!!! I have rights you know. Blah, blah, blah." And so the complaining was heard through the night in the now-dark laboratory. Meanwhile, the cheese remained in room five.

So what is the difference between mice and people? Mice get their cheese.

— Author unknown

Learning Theories

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Evolution of learning
Presentation from Uof M