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Inoue, Yukiko – 1998
Cognitive psychology has replaced behaviorism as the dominant school of thought in American psychology regarding learning and development. This paper investigates changes in the field that have led to this major shift. The different methods used by behaviorists and human information processing (HIP) psychology are described. The metaphor of the…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
Peer reviewedCherkes-Julkowski, Miriam – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1996
The case is made that advances in chaos and complexity theories and self-organizing systems have important implications for the field of learning disabilities. Problems with behaviorism are discussed and the properties of self-organizing systems are explained. The concepts of continuous, nonlinear development and motivation and volition are…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Chaos Theory, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
