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THE SECOND OFFSPRING OF GENERAL PROCESS LEARNING THEORY: OVERT BEHAVIOR AS THE AMBASSADOR OF THE MIND
Author(s) -
Malone John C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1982.38-205
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , animal learning , sort , comparative psychology , focus (optics) , stimulus (psychology) , animal cognition , learning theory , animal behavior , neuroscience , computer science , physics , optics , information retrieval , zoology , biology
Wasserman suggested in a recent book review that the study of intervening cognitive processes represents a current focus of interest in animal learning and that this has led to a revitalization of comparative psychology. An examination of the volume reviewed suggests that he may have overstated the case. Most of the authors to whom he refers expressed dissatisfaction with traditional stimulus‐response associationism but few argued for the extreme (information processing) sort of cognitive approach described by Wasserman.