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Theories of learning — Pavlov, Thorndike, Skinner and the Gestalt school
What learning is and is not; classical conditioning and its four terms; Thorndike's trial and error with the three primary laws; Skinner's operant conditioning, reinforcement and schedules; and Gestalt insight with the laws of perceptual organisation — each followed by what it actually asks a teacher to do.
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