Lectures on Theories of Learning explores the maze of conditioning principles and concepts that guided research in American experimental psychology in the twentieth century.The main trails on our journey are the historical theories of learning:Edward Thorndike and the laws of learningIvan Pavlov and classical conditioningJohn Watson and the first behaviorismEdwin Guthrie and one-trial learningEdward Tolman and the cognitive mapClark Hull and drive reductionDonald Hebb and physiological psychologyB. F. Skinner and radical behaviorismEach trail leads to further intellectual excursions:orientations in the study of learningoperationism and fallibilismhabituation and sensitizationa primer on operant conditioningschedules of reinforcementthe uses and abuses of punishmentescape and avoidance learningThere are no blind alleys in Lectures on Theories of Learning as it sagely winds its way through the history of American psychology. From the commencement in lecture 1 to the conclusions in lecture 15, students will experience an informed and informal journey of psychological discoveries and intellectual enrichment.