ABSTRACT

In the first part of this book, we explored a number of different theories of human learning. While we have not exhausted them all, we have tried to demonstrate the extent of research which has been devoted to trying to understand these processes. Needless to say, different authors have used different terminology to describe the types of learning that they have studied. In this very brief chapter we try to show how many of the different terms they use refer to very similar phenomena. The chapter falls into two parts. In the first we discuss the terminology used by various authors. In the second, we endeavour to synthesize some of the types of learning discussed.