Associative concept learning in animals
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Associative concept learning in animals.
Nonhuman animals show evidence for three types of concept learning: perceptual or similarity-based in which objects/stimuli are categorized based on physical similarity; relational in which one object/stimulus is categorized relative to another (e.g., same/different); and associative in which arbitrary stimuli become interchangeable with one another by virtue of a common association with anothe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-5002
DOI: 10.1002/jeab.55