Supporting material

    Behaviourism: The Modern Past

John B. Watson on the science of psychology
Pavlov’s dog
B.F. Skinner’s behaviourism
Binet’s intelligence test
Henry Goddard on IQ
Yerkes’ army intelligence tests

    Brain developmentalism: More recent times

Piaget on child development
Pinker on the language instinct
How the brain learns
Chomsky on IQ and inequality

    Social cognitivism: New Learning

Vygotsky on language and thought
Kanzi learns language
Terrence Deacon on the symbolic species
David Christian explains the uniqueness of the learning species
Merlin Donald on the evolution of human consciousness
Ted Honderich, on consciousness
Wenger on learning in communities of practice
Lave and Wenger on situated learning
The ‘wolf children’ of Godamuri
Marika and Christie on Yolngu ways of knowing and learning
Gardner’s multiple intelligences

Keywords

Behaviourism
Brain developmentalism
Social cognitivism

Knowledge processes

Experiencing the known
Experiencing the new
Conceptualising by naming
Conceptualising with theory
Analysing functionally
Analysing critically
Applying appropriately
Applying creatively


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