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Learning: A Behavioral, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Synthesis provides an integrated account of the psychological processes involved in learning and conditioning and their influence on human behavior. With a skillful blend of behavioral, cognitive, and evolutionary themes, the text explores various types of learning as adaptive specialization that evolved through natural selection. Robust pedagogy and relevant examples bring concepts to life in this unique and accessible approach to the field.
inference and the Representations of Knowledge in Operant Conditioning
inference and the Representations of Knowledge in Operant Conditioning
In Chapters 3 and 4, we reviewed a great deal of evidence that points to the conclusion that Pavlovian conditioning presents individuals with the task of discovering the predictors of important events in their environment. The process by which they obtain knowledge about the predictive relationship between these events is called causal inference, and that knowledge is encoded in associations involving these events, the temporal relationship between these events, where they occur, and hierarchical arrangements involving these events and other predictors (see Chapter 5). Learning these things helps individuals prepare for the occurrence of significant events (see Chapter 6).
Operant conditioning also presents individuals with an inference task. ...
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