Front Cover -- Categories of Human Learning -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Classical and Operant Conditioning -- SUBCLASSES OF CLASSICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING -- SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF EQUIVALENCE OF STIMULI, RESPONSES, AND REINFORCEMENT IN A CLASSIFICATORY SCHEME -- SUMMARY OF THE CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM -- CONDITIONING EXPERIMENTS WITH HUMAN SUBJECTS -- COMPARABILITY OF THE FORMS OF HUMAN LEARNING -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2. Categories of Learning and the Problem of Definition.

CAN THE SAME RESPONSES BE CONDITIONED BOTH CLASSICALLY AND INSTRUMENTALLY? -- CLASSICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING AND THE NATURE OF REINFORCEMENT -- ARE LAWS OF CLASSICAL CONDITIONING AND INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING THE SAME? -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3. The Representativeness of Rote Verbal Learning -- APPROACHES TO A TAXONOMY OF HUMAN LEARNING -- CHARACTERIZATION OF ROTE VERBAL LEARNING -- FACTORS IN RESPONSE LEARNING -- FACTORS INFLUENCING ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING -- SUMMARY AND GENERAL COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4. The Centrality of Verbal Learning.

UNITY VS. DIVERSITY OF LEARNING PROCESS -- THE CENTRALITY OF VERBAL LEARNING -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5. Probability Learning -- METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES -- SOME FACTS ABOUT PROBABILITY LEARNING -- SYSTEMATIC INTERPRETATIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6. An Evaluation of Stimulus Sampling Theory -- REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES AND MEAN RESPONSE -- CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY SCHEDULES -- SEQUENTIAL DEPENDENCIES -- THE FRIEDMAN, BURKE, COLE, ESTES, AND MILLWARD EXPERIMENT -- STIMULUS VARIATION EXPERIMENTS -- STIMULUS SAMPLING THEORY -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 7. Short-Term Memory and Incidental Learning -- SHORT-TERM RETENTION -- INCIDENTAL LEARNING -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8. Behavioral Effects of Instruction to learn: COMMENTS ON PROFESSOR POSTMAN'S PAPER -- INCIDENTAL LEARNING -- THE STIMULUS TRACE AND SHORT-TERM MEMORY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9. The Concept of the Concept -- MODELS OF CONCEPTS -- THE NATURE OF CONCEPTS -- THE PLACE OF CLASSIFICATION LEARNING IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10. On Verbalizations and Concepts: COMMENTS ON PROFESSOR KENDLER'S PAPER -- References.

Chapter 11. Perceptual-Motor Skill Learning -- DEFINITIONS AND TAXONOMY -- THEORETICAL MODELS -- THE CONTINUITY-DISCONTINUITY ISSUE IN SKILL LEARNING -- PHASES CHARACTERISTIC OF SKILL LEARNING -- COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF SKILL LEARNING -- SOME CROSS-CATEGORY PROBLEMS OF SKILL LEARNING -- SOME RELATIVELY UNIQUE ASPECTS OF SKILL LEARNING -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12. The Generality of Research on Transfer Functions: COMMENTS ON PROFESSOR FITTS' PAPER -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- THE TECHNIQUES -- SOME EMPIRICAL DATA -- RELATION TO OTHER HUMAN LEARNING -- REFERENCES.