Learning in the third age

Article Abstract:

Malcolm L. Johnson's 'Lessons From the Open University: Third-Age Learning' parallels the opinion of educational gerontologists for the past two decades. His paper presents empirical evidence from the Open University on the cognitive ability and research potential of people in later life who come from any part of the social spectrum. They raise up the issue of why life-long learning needs of older people have been neglected in higher learning.

Social aspects, Evaluation, Demographic aspects, Open University, Works, Education of the aged, Elder education, Lessons From the Open University: Third-Age Learning (report), Johnson, Malcolm L.

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Greatness and misery in the teaching of the psychology of learning

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The study of the psychology of learning is a moribund subdivision of the field of psychology in undergraduate schools. This is due to a number of reasons including problems with content taught and the manner of instruction. Teachers of the psychology of learning should be aware of how the course content can be a means toward broader, more important ends and also need to promote and encourage conceptual thinking.

Study and teaching, Learning, Psychology of, Learning theory (Psychology), Thought and thinking, Thinking, Learning ability

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Autoshaped head poking in the mouse: A quantitative analysis of the learning curve

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The acquisition of anticipatory head poking in individual mice was quantified, in autoshaping experiments, using an algorithm that finds changes in the slope of a cumulative record. In most mice, upward changes in the amount of anticipatory poking per trial were abrupt, and tended to occur at session boundaries, suggesting that the session is as significant a unit of experience as the trial.

Analysis, Learning curves, Experience curves, Autoshaping (Psychology)

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