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A single-process learning theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Marion Blute
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada marion.blute@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

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Many analogies exist between the process of evolution by natural selection and of learning by reinforcement and punishment. A full extension of the evolutionary analogy to learning to include analogues of the fitness, genotype, development, environmental influences, and phenotype concepts makes possible a single theory of the learning process able to encompass all of the elementary procedures known to yield learning.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press