De Houwer, Jan and Barnes-Holmes, Dermot and Moors, Agnes
(2013)
What is learning? On the nature and merits of a functional definition of learning.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
ISSN 1069-9384
Abstract
Learning has been defined functionally as changes in behavior that result from
experience or mechanistically as changes in the organism that result from experience. Both
types of definitions are problematic. We define learning as ontogenetic adaptation, that is, as
changes in the behavior of an organism that result from regularities in the environment of the
organism. This functional definition not only solves the problems of other definitions but also
has important advantages for cognitive learning research.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
learning; conditioning; definition; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
| Item ID: |
14820 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Dermot Barnes-Holmes
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| Date Deposited: |
14 Sep 2021 15:08 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review |
| Publisher: |
Springer |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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