Journal article
WHAT'S ELEMENTARY ABOUT ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING?
Annual review of psychology, Vol.48(1), pp.573-607
02/1997
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.573
PMID: 9046569
Abstract
The scientific study of associative learning began nearly 100 years ago with the pioneering studies of Thorndike and Pavlov, and it continues today as an active area of research and theory. Associative learning should be the foundation for our understanding of other forms of behavior and cognition in human and nonhuman animals. The laws of associative learning are complex, and many modern theorists posit the involvement of attention, memory, and information processing in such basic conditioning phenomena as overshadowing and blocking, and the effects of stimulus preexposure on later conditioning. An unresolved problem for learning theory is distinguishing the formation of associations from their behavioral expression. This and other problems will occupy future generations of behavioral scientists interested in the experimental investigation of associative learning. Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists will both contribute to and benefit from that effort in the next 100 years of inquiry.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- WHAT'S ELEMENTARY ABOUT ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING?
- Creators
- Edward A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1407Ralph R Miller - Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annual review of psychology, Vol.48(1), pp.573-607
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.573
- PMID
- 9046569
- ISSN
- 0066-4308
- eISSN
- 1545-2085
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1997
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070884802771
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