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Generalization
The transfer of past learning to novel events and problems.
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Discrimination learning
The process by which animals or people learn to respond differently to different stimuli.
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Concept formation
The process by which we learn about new categories of entities based on common features.
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Generalization gradient
A curve showing how changes in the physical properties of stimuli correspond to changes in responding.
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Consequential region
A set of stimuli in the world that share the same consequence as a stimulus whose consequence is already known.
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Discrete-component representation
A representation in which each individual stimulus corresponds to one element in a model.
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Distributed representation
A representation in which information is coded as a pattern of activation distributed across many different nodes.
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Errorless discrimination learning
A training procedure in which a difficult discrimination is learned by starting with an easy version of the task and proceeding to incrementally harder versions.
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