Edward C. Tolman

In the article, A Star is Made, Anders Ericsson, a 58-years old psychotherapy professor at Florida State University, tried to answer the question “When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?”. To answer this question, he conducted an experiment, about memory training. This experiment involved a person hearing a series of number and then repeating it. After a few trials, he concludes that memory itself is not genetically determined, but instead though a lot of practices and training "He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers". With these results, he moved on to another process called deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is a highly structured activity…

about sign learning which is a theory proposed by Edward C Tolman in the year 1866-1959. This theory has also been compared to behaviorism and cognitive theory. I will summarize some of the techniques and evidence of Toman’s work. The methods that he used in his experiment and discuss the similarities of his work into a real life situation. In conclusion, I will talk about the results of sign learning and ways to reduce this theory in a real-world situation and how it applies to human’s learning…