associative learning: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	association learning

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conditioning insight imprinting trial-and-error learning operant conditioning filial imprinting curiosity conditioned stimulus Pavlovian conditioning Thorndike puzzle box psychomotor learning perceptual learning observational learning social learning play socialization transfer of training Social Cognitive Theory The Future of Information and Education imitation

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Georg Elias Müller

German psychologist

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Kenneth Wartinbee Spence

American psychologist