A Cognitive Theory of Learning: Research on Hypothesis Testing

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Hypothesis Theory
	Chapter 1. The Beginning
		Reading No. 1: "Hypothesis versus Chance" in the Pre-Solution Period in Sensory Discrimination Learning
	Chapter 2. The Reaction
		Reading No. 2: An Experimental Test of the Continuity and Non-Continuity Theories of Discrimination Learning
	Chapter 3. The Transition: Conditioning Theory in the Fifties
		Reading No. 3: Application of a Statistical Model to Simple Discrimination Learning in Human Subjects
		Reading No. 4: A Theory of Discrimination Learning
	Chapter 4. The Transition: Foreshadowings in the Fifties
		Reading No. 5: Reception Strategies in Concept Attainment
		Reading No. 6: Learning, Development, and Thinking
		Reading No. 7: Analysis of Discrimination Learning by Monkeys
		Reading No. 8: A Model of Hypothesis Behavior in Discrimination Learning Set
	Chapter 5. The Renaissance: Mathematical Learning Theories in the Early Sixties
		Reading No. 9: Learning Theory and the New "Mental Chemistry
		Reading No. 10: The Selection of Strategies in Cue Learning
		Reading No. 11: Reversals prior to Solution in Concept Identification
Part II: Visit to A Small Laboratory
	Chapter 6. The Analysis of Response Patterns by Human Adults
		Reading No. 12: Mediating Processes in Humans at the Outset of Discrimination Learning
		Reading No. 13: The Blank Trials Law: The Equivalence of Positive Reinforcement and Nonreinforcement
	Chapter 7. Probing for Hypotheses
		Reading No. 14: Hypothesis Behavior by Humans during Discrimination Learning
		Reading No. 15: The None-To-All Theorem of Human Discrimination Learning
	Chapter 8. Further Applications of Blank Trials
		Reading No. 16: Human Discrimination Learning: A Test of the Blank-Trials Assumption
		Reading No. 17: Human Discrimination Learning: The Subset Sampling Assumption
	Chapter 9. The Start of the Child Program
		Reading No. 18: Hypotheses, Strategies, and Stereotypes in Discrimination Learning
		Addendum to Chapter 9
	Chapter 10. When S Fails to Learn
		Reading No. 19: The Presolution Paradox in Discrimination Learning
		Reading No. 20: Hypothesis Theory and Nonlearning Despite Ideal S-R-Reinforcement Contingencies
		Addendum to Chapter 10
	Chapter 11. The Transfer Hypothesis
	Chapter 12. The Summing Up
Epilogue
Appendix
References
Subject Index