The magic mirror of Robert Rescorla’s methodological behaviorism

  1. Rosas, Juan M. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

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Zeitschrift:
Revista de historia de la psicología

ISSN: 0211-0040,  2445-0928

Datum der Publikation: 2021

Ausgabe: 42

Nummer: 1

Seiten: 28-35

Art: Artikel

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Zusammenfassung

Learning research assumes that the underlying learning processes are mirrored in behavior. However, learning may or may not show as a change in behavior, and a behavioral change may or may not be the result of learning. Thus, behavior turns to be a distorted mirror of what the organism has in its head, and learning researchers put a great effort in designing control conditions to ensure that what the mirror reflects is the learning process responsible. Here I present my tribute to Robert Rescorla and his uncanny ability to use clever designs to allow behavior to separate among different underlying learning processes. I will use the research about the contents of learning as the guiding thread, connecting the results of Rescorla’s research in nonhuman animals with recent research on the same issue in human associative learning.

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