Present accomplishment and future trends in problem-solving and learning theory.

Abstract

"To me, one obvious criticism of what has happened in the last 25 years is the domination of theories of learning by the rat." "I predict that there will be a social revolution among students of learning wherein man re-establishes his dominance over the rat." "My prediction is ... a frontal attack on the problem of achieving a descriptive schema for identifying samples of human learning, and for identifying primary task variables. The notion "must be overcome" that "the stimulus is a simple puncti-form affair ... that can be dealt with as though it occurred without context....".