Propositional learning is a useful research heuristic but it is not a theoretical algorithm

Journal article

Mitchell et al.'s claim, that their propositional theory is a single-process theory, is illusory because they relegate some learning to a secondary memory process. This renders the single-process theory untestable. The propositional account is not a process theory of learning, but rather, a heuristic that has led to interesting research. © 2009 Cambridge University Press.

Authors: Baker, A; Baetu, I; Murphy, R

• Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 199-200
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09000879
• EISSN: 1469-1825
• ISSN: 0140-525X
• Language: English