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-====== Discrimination Learning Theory ======
-===== General =====
-Discrimination learning theory was introduced in 1936 by [[http://www.nap.edu/readingroom.php?book=biomems&page=kspence.html|Kenneth Spence]], one of the [[http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Clark_L._Hull|Clark Hull]]'s students and coworkers.
-===== What is discrimination learning theory? =====
-process by which animals or people learn to make different responses to different stimuli
-Spence departed from Hull because he attributed improvement in performance to motivational factors rather than habit factors.
-. Logic and scientific methodology in psychology - Spence identified four different kinds of theories in psychology. These were "animalistic conceptions", the belief that soul, libido, vital energy, or other vague "forces" within the organism guided behavior; "neurophysiological theories" such as Pavlov and Kohler; "Response-inferred theoretical constructs" such as put forth by Gestaltists such as Kurt Lewin; and "intervening variable" theories of Hull and Tolman.
-. Experimentation in discrimination learning- Spence observed that reinforcement combined with frustration or inhibitors facilitated finding a correct stimulus among a cluster which included incorrect ones. This was a "carrot and stick" model.
-. Absolute stimulus theory and transposition - Transpositional phenomena referred to the tendency of an organism to select between two NEW stimuli based on learning from a previous relationship of stimulus and response.
-===== What is the practical meaning of discrimination learning theory? =====
-===== Keywords and most important names =====
-===== Criticisms =====
-===== Bibliography =====
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