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Old ideas, new mistakes: All learning is relational

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Stellan Ohlsson
Stellan Ohlsson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, (M/C 285), Chicago, IL 60607-7137 stellan@uic.edu
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Abstract

Learning is the acquisition of knowledge, not of input/output mappings. The distinction between statistical and relational learning, as Clark & Thornton define those terms, is not useful because all human learning is relational. However, prior knowledge does influence later learning and the sequence in which learning tasks are encountered is indeed crucial. Simulations of sequence effects would be interesting.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 79 - 80
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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