Learning & Thinking Processes Issues

Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach

Learning and Thinking Processes Issues:

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Author: Charles Hayes:


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I. Introduction:

A. Issue 1: Should Use of the Principles of

Conditioning Be Limited in the

Modification of Undesirable Behavior?

1. Yes. R. Joseph Lucero, David J. Vail, and John

scherber, from "Regulating Operant Conditioning,"

Hospital and Community Psychology.

2. No. Nathan B. Miron, from "Issues and

Implications of Operant Conditioning," Hospital

and Community Psychology:


Operant conditioning principles are widely used to

treat all types of problems, from student

misbehavior to patient pyschosis. Many have

questioned their use, contending that their

application is unethical and dehumanizing. A

special concern is the application of conditioning to

patients in mental institutions.

Issue 2. Can Computers Thing?

1. Yes: H. A. Simon from "Using Cognitive Science

to Solve Human Problems," Science and Public

Policy Seminar:

2. No: Ulric Neisser, from "Computers Can't Thing,"

Creative computing:


What is the nature of human thought? If machines

can perform problemsolving and decision-making

functions, does that make them capable of thought

as we understand it? This issue goes to the very

heart of our view of ourselves as unique in our

reasoning abilities:

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