How We Learn

Discover how your mind acquires, processes, and stores new information in this captivating course about the process of learning.

• By This Professor
• 01: Myths about Learning
• 02: Why No Single Learning Theory Works
• 03: Learning as Information Processing
• 04: Creating Representations
• 05: Categories, Rules, and Scripts
• 06: What Babies Know
• 07: Learning Your Native Tongue
• 08: Learning a Second Language
• 09: Learning How to Move
• 10: Learning Our Way Around
• 11: Learning to Tell Stories
• 12: Learning Approaches in Math and Science
• 13: Learning as Theory Testing
• 14: Integrating Different Domains of Learning
• 15: Cognitive Constraints on Learning
• 16: Choosing Learning Strategies
• 17: Source Knowledge and Learning
• 18: The Role of Emotion in Learning
• 19: Cultivating a Desire to Learn
• 20: Intelligence and Learning
• 21: Are Learning Styles Real?
• 22: Different People, Different Interests
• 23: Learning across the Lifespan
• 24: Making the Most of How We Learn