Commentary: the truth and value of theories of associative learning

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Publication date 2009
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume | Issue number 32 | 2
Pages (from-to) 200-201
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract In this commentary, we assess the propositional approach to associative learning not only in terms of veridicality and falsifiability, but also in heuristic value. We remark that it has furthered our knowledge and understanding of human, as well as animal, associative learning. At the same time, we maintain that models developed from the association formation tradition continue to bear great heuristic value as well.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09000880
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