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How do we learn how we should act and how do we store information? These two questions are among the earliest studied by psychologists and still provide a focus for a substantial amount of research. The ability to learn and to reason was thought of by European scientists in the 19th century as the factor which distinguishes human beings from animals. Animals were thought to acquire their behaviour and knowledge by ‘instinct’, whereas people developed their own knowledge through enquiry and had the gift of reason.
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© 1994 Philip Banyard and Nicky Hayes
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Banyard, P., Hayes, N. (1994). Learning and remembering. In: Psychology: Theory and Application. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3007-1_5
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