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Both rules and associations are required to predict human behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

I. P. L. McLaren
I. P. L. McLaren
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QG, United Kingdom. [email protected]
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Abstract

I argue that the dual-process account of human learning rejected by Mitchell et al. in the target article is informative and predictive with respect to human behaviour in a way that the authors' purely propositional account is not. Experiments that reveal different patterns of results under conditions that favour either associative or rule-based performance are the way forward.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 216 - 217
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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