Open Peer Commentary Clark & Thornton: Trading spaces
Old ideas, new mistakes: All learning is relational
Stellan Ohlsson a1 a1 Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, (M/C 285), Chicago, IL 60607-7137
stellan@uic.edu
Abstract
Learning is the acquisition of knowledge, not of input/output
mappings. The distinction between statistical and relational learning,
as Clark & Thornton define those terms, is not useful because
all human learning is relational. However, prior knowledge
does influence later learning and the sequence in which learning tasks
are encountered is indeed crucial. Simulations of sequence effects
would be interesting.
