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A single-process learning theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Marion Blute
Marion Blute
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canadamarion.blute@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

Many analogies exist between the process of evolution by natural selection and of learning by reinforcement and punishment. A full extension of the evolutionary analogy to learning to include analogues of the fitness, genotype, development, environmental influences, and phenotype concepts makes possible a single theory of the learning process able to encompass all of the elementary procedures known to yield learning.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 529 - 531
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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