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The Psychology of Associative Learning

By David R. Shanks

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0521445159, 9780521445153
LCC
BF318 .S43 1995
Open Library ID
OL1272148M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5610533 bytes)
Series
Problems in the Behavioural Sciences
Pages
208\207
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

It is hard to think of any significant aspect of our lives that is not influenced by what we have learned in the past. Of fundamental importance is our ability to learn the ways in which events are related to one another, called associative learning. This book provides a fresh look at associative learning theory and reviews extensively the advances made over the past twenty years. The Psychology of Associative Learning begins by establishing that the human associative learning system is rational in the sense that it accurately represents event relationships. David Shanks goes on to consider the informational basis of learning, in terms of the memorization of instances, and discusses at length the application of connectionist models to human learning. The book concludes with an evaluation of the role of rule induction in associative learning. This will be essential reading for graduate students and researchers in psychology and the behavioral sciences.

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