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Towards a co‐ordination of conditioning and information‐processing mechanisms within the field of human learning
Author(s) -
LINDAHL MAJBRITT
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1976.tb00207.x
Subject(s) - conditioning , psychology , information processing , perception , dimension (graph theory) , cognitive psychology , classical conditioning , field (mathematics) , neuroscience , statistics , mathematics , pure mathematics
.— A delimitation of the fields of application of conditioning and information‐processing models was attempted. The delimitation was made in relation to two psychological dimensions, a perception‐conception dimension and a selectivity‐of‐attention dimension. It depicted conditioning models as more applicable the more perceptually‐loaded and attentionally non‐selective the lzarning attempts, and information‐processing models as more applicable the more conceptually‐loaded and attentionally selective the learning attempts. Three assumptions were made concerning the intra‐individual coordination of conditioning and information‐processing mechanisms of learning. Conditioning and hypotheses‐testing were, for instance, assumed to be encoding processes functioning in a parallel way and resulting in products, which may fuse when retrieved and used in efferent processes.