ABSTRACT
Table 6.1 provides a summary of basic learning types discussed in chapter 5—imprinting, antecedent learning, response-strategy learning, and antecedent-plus-response-strategy learning. Motor-response learning is not included in this classification because it involves learning details on the infrasystem level that simply increase the organism’s response repertoire. Therefore, all the categories presented in Column 1 refer to content map issues. This chapter discusses the basic properties of imprinting and antecedent learning. Chapter 7 considers basic properties of response-strategy learning. Types of Basic Learning
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Categories |
Content Map Before Learning |
Purpose of Learning |
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Imprinting (quasilearning) |
Behavior complete. Discriminative stimulus not specified. |
Assigning content map to specific individuals |
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Antecedent learning |
Response strategy specified. Discriminative stimulus not specified. |
Learning a specific discriminative stimulus for hard-wired response strategy |
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Response-strategy learning 1 |
Discriminative stimulus specified. Response strategy not specified. |
Learning a unique strategy for a given hardwired discriminative stimulus |
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Response-strategy learning 2 |
Discriminative stimulus not completely specified. Response strategy not specified. |
Learning a unique strategy that is facilitated by hard-wired stimulus provisions |
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Antecedent + response-strategy learning |
Discriminative stimulus and response strategy not specified. |
Learning a rule that relates a new discriminative stimulus, a behavior, and a consequence |
