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1. Fear of white aprons - classical conditioning; 2. A learned heartattack? The problem of extinction; 3. The World Fair's 'magic nails' - trialand error learning?; 4. An untidy child becomes tidy - signals for newhabits; 5. Michael remains a troublemaker - of operant conditioning and theperils of reinforcement; 6. How Rita unlearns to like drawing -reinforcements are not all alike; 7. Waiting and learning to do without -learning to control one's own impulses and behavior; 8. Learning prosocialbehaviour- social-cognitive development and the learning of social valuesystems; 9. Don't be afraid of exams - more than just desensitization; 10.How managers learn to cope with stress - cognitive behavior training and thedevelopment of action-regulating cognitions; 11. Learned helplessness in asenior high school student - non-contingencies and casual attributions; 12.Learning to juggle - mastering the grammar of juggling; 13. Learning fromtext - the construction of mental models; 14. Building your vocabulary -mechanical learning and the elaboration of semantic networks; 15. Fontane's'John Maynard' - on global and specific learning and memory aids; 16.Learning to count: the construction of numeric networks - Piaget's theory ofgenetic epistemology applied; 17. How concrete is concrete learning, forexample in geometry? - conceptual and figural components of learning.