Abstract: This article gives a brief introduction to the cognitive theory of lear-ming suggested by David P. Ausubel, a famous contemporary Americancognitive educational psychologist. It also gives a bird's eye view of thedifferences and relationships between Ausubel's and other schools oflearning theory, which include the neobehavioristic position, the gestalttheory, Bartlett's theory of memory and the information processingtheory. Ausubel's "assimilation theory" on school learning and retentionof organized bodies of subject knowledge is reflective of the developmentaltrend that research in learning psychology is being combined with thatin teaching theories.

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