For hundreds of years, learning meant the formation of associations and was considered the means by which society transmitted its acquired cultural capital. Learning was the.....1.... which lay behind almost every explanation in the social sciences. Increasingly however, the study of learning has been.....2..... into the study of the human mind. Nowadays when one speaks of learning one must speak of representations, of knowledge, and of innate and specific structures of mind. While the new view of learning is still mostly restricted to the cognitive sciences - the social sciences.....3..... have not been affected - one would expect that it will ultimately have a powerful impact on the social sciences.
In philosophy and psychology learning has traditionally been......4..... a potential solution to the problem of knowledge. How is it that a human being comes to have knowledge of the world? In this context, the study of learning has long been central the study of the human mind. Philosophers such as Locke and Hume .....5..... of knowledge as a system of association of ideas.