Episode of Series “Psychology”.
In an analysis of the learning process, this film demonstrates that the learning of a skill by any organism involves two basic and integrated processes: discrimination between stimuli and application of this discrimination in the making of selected responses. Laboratory experiments with pigeons are used in the demonstration.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
321965
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Discrimination
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Early Learning Skills Analysis
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning ability
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning ability - Testing
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning, Psychology o
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Psychology - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychology - Experiments
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychology - Study and teaching
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)