After reading this article you will learn about the phenomenon of learning-sets. In certain experiments it was noticed that when monkeys are made to go through a discrimination learning task, for example to discriminate a correct red object from a wrong black object, the monkey takes many trials. However, the same monkey on subsequent discrimination learning takes much fewer trials. [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the process of learning by cognition. Cognitive theorists claim that the associationistic or connection model of learning holds in interpreting animal learning to a certain extent, but does not seem to do full justice in explaining human learning. Connection theorists seem to be intentionally or otherwise blind towards concepts like reasoning, insight, [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the process of learning by connections or associations. The doctrine of associationism or knowing the world by forming connections can be traced back to Aristotle. According to him, every experience in life is learned and remembered due to the laws of association - the law of repetition, law of contiguity and the [...]
