Ontuitive Blog Latent Learning

Strong and durable learning can happen without incentives and reinforcements. How do we make the most of that insight? Part One on latent learning. Before Edward Tolman's maze experiments (see this post, and this post, for the full story) and subsequent theories about "cognitive maps," it was conventional wisdom that learning only occurred with incentives and reinforcements. All learning, it was assumed, was behavior modification in response to stimuli. (The Pavlovian response is the most f [...]