Evidence for rule versus exemplar learning strategies as stable individual differences independent from working memory.
Evidence for two qualitatively different learning strategies has emerged from the function- and category-learning literatures: a rule-based and an exemplar-based strategy. With a rule-based strategy, learners abstract some common principle from training items, which allows extrapolation to novel ins...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 311 - 335 |
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