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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 631-642Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0386-3
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Learning; Conditioning; Definition
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Learning has been defined functionally as changes in behavior that result from experience or mechanistically as changes in the organism that result from experience. Both types of definitions are problematic. We define learning as ontogenetic adaptation-that is, as changes in the behavior of an organism that result from regularities in the environment of the organism. This functional definition not only solves the problems of other definitions, but also has important advantages for cognitive learning research.
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