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Direct linkvan Osselaer, Stijn M. J.; Janiszewski, Chris; Cunha Jr., Marcus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
Recent studies involving nonlinear discrimination problems suggest that stimuli in human associative learning are represented configurally with narrow generalization, such that presentation of stimuli that are even slightly dissimilar to stored configurations weakly activate these configurations. The authors note that another well-known set of…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Learning Processes, Interaction, Stimulus Generalization
Peer reviewedPepitone, Albert; Triandis, Harry C. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1987
There is no a priori basis for assuming that theories of social psychology are universal. For theories to be universal, the meaning of the stimulus would have to be consistent across cultures, but this cannot be taken for granted. Cross-cultural variations in social behavior may be "surface" expressions of deep structure norms that are universal.…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Behaviorism, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
