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The Pavlovian theory of generalization.

K. S. Lashley, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1946 - 
- Vol. 53, Iss: 2, pp 72-87
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This article is published in Psychological Review.The article was published on 1946-03-01. It has received 231 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stimulus generalization & Generalization.

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Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science

TL;DR: A psychological space is established for any set of stimuli by determining metric distances between the stimuli such that the probability that a response learned to any stimulus will generalize to any other is an invariant monotonic function of the distance between them.
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How shall a thing be called.

Roger Brown
- 01 Jan 1958 - 
TL;DR: Zipf (10) has shown that the length of a word (in phonemes or syllables) is inversely related to its frequency in the printed language, and the shorter names for any thing will usually also be the most frequently used names for that thing, and so the choice of a name is usually predictable from either frequency or brevity.
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Principles of Behavior

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The Behavior of Organisms

B. F. Skinner
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Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex

TL;DR: The development of the objective method in investigating the physiological activities of the cerebral hemispheres and the concept of Reflex, the most fundamental physiological characteristic of the hemisphere, is studied.