Flawed Foundations of Associationism?: Comment on Machado and Silva (2007)

American Psychologist

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 682-685

  Gallistel, C R ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

associative learning; learning distributions; learning trials; memory; temporal pairing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EVALUATION; FEAR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEAR; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 35748964747     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.62.7.682     Document Type: Article

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