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Learning: Principles and Applications, 4/e
Stephen B Klein, Mississippi State University
Complex Learning Tasks

Internet Exercises

  1. How long would it take you to solve the Towers of Hanoi problem with 64 disks?

    HOW MANY YEARS?
    http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/DWillman/p335_towers_demo.htm
    This site has a Towers of Hanoi demonstration, an explanation and some history on the particular problem.

  2. How do children learn concepts and words?

    HOW TO BECOME A WORDSWORTH
    http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/32/bbs00000432-00/
    This link provides a précis' of an article arguing how children learn concepts and words. The author argues that "word learning is the product of certain cognitive and linguistic abilities that include the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic cues to meaning, and a rich understanding of the mental states of other people. These capacities are powerful, early emerging, and to some extent uniquely human, but they are not special to word learning."

  3. Chomsky was a very harsh critic of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which Skinner argued that language learning was simply a result of reinforcement. What were Chomsky's arguments?

    A DIFFERENT L.A.D.
    http://www.tjhsst.edu/Psych/language/chomsky.html
    This link presents a summary of Chomsky's thoughts on language.

    NO POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT HERE
    http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/11/48/cog00001148-00/chomsky.htm
    This link is to the full text of Chomsky's review of Skinner's book, Verbal Behavior. The review is long, but it also reviews Skinners ideas and attempts to refute them.

  4. Can apes communicate and learn a language?

    WALKING AND A TALKING
    http://whyfiles.org/058language/ape_talk.html
    This is a short article on language in apes (Bonobos), which also indicates that apes may have a second way of communicating.

    "YABA DABA DABA DABA, SAID THE CHIMPY TO THE MONK."
    http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/language.htm
    This link provides a short summary of the "do apes learn a language debate" as well as a description of what is going on at the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute.

    SEE MONKEYS DO
    http://www.brown.edu/Research/Primate/lpn39-1.html
    Site that lists many sites on the Web for ape language and pictures of apes.









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