Affinities have been noted between radical behaviorism and phenomenology, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism, but this paper claims the most promising one has been neglected. Skinner’s behaviorism is best seen as elucidating that time-sense characteristic of ordinary, habitual life which Heidegger calls a “temporalizing of everydayness.” We usually live ‘from moment to moment’ as if we were ju...

Since the first publication of this chapter in the previous edition of the Handbook, some changes have occurred in the theoretical landscape. Cognitive psychology has moved further away from its roots in information processing toward a stance that emphasizes individual and group construction of knowledge. The notion of the mind as a computer has fallen into disfavor largely due to the mechanist...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss some of the developments in cognitive psychology that have been influential in educational technology research. Since cognitive psychology is a broad, eclectic, and sometimes elusive discipline , this chapter is of necessity selective. Nonetheless, it provides discussion of the most important research in cogni-tive psychology that has a bearing on the t...