Week 2 – Chapters 1 and 2

The book in these chapters discussed in depth how science has been developed overtime and used within learning today. The way people learn has always been fluctuating and changing with many generations in society today. Different analysis’s have been formed over the years that has helped make learning a little easier. These experiments were formed a lot of time using the stimulus and response methods such as the example in the book with the cats. Chapter one also stressed how important it is to learn with understanding and purpose. It also placed emphasis on using what you already know and help apply it to new topics you may not know anything about. Chapter two focused more around how if you focus on one subject and mastered expertise in it, would this benefit you more than being equally intelligent in all subjects. It was discovered in this chapter that people who play board games or are put in other strategic situations are benefited with learning strategy skills to use daily than those individuals who are not placed in these situations. These instances can greatly help in learning how to problem solving to figure out many tasks within life.