These incidental learning systems are "often a set of tricks," he continues, like "focused attention, repetition, creating rewarding circumstances, etc." When we fail at intentionally learning systems ...

Two theories currently exist to explain the retarding effect of partial reward on the extinction of a learned behaviour. Amsel 1,2 has suggested a theory based on the thesis that the shortcomings (non ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Three three-choice successive discrimination tasks were presented to 8- and 14-year-old children. For two groups, Task 1 (original learning) ...

24 boys and 24 girls at each of 3 grade levels (kindergarten, third, and fifth) were tested in an incidental-learning paradigm. For half the Ss, the central and incidental stimuli, line drawings of ...

Social learning theory is really a combination of two other kinds of learning theories. On the one hand, there is the cognitive learning theory, which states that the learning of an individual is ...