Accounting for individual differences in human associative learning

Frontiers in Psychology

Nicola C. Byrom¹ 

关键词: individual differences;    association learning;    psychopathology;    depression;    perceptual processing;    attention;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00588

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Associative learning has provided fundamental insights to understanding psychopathology. However, psychopathology occurs along a continuum and as such, identification of disruptions in processes of associative learning associated with aspects of psychopathology illustrates a general flexibility in human associative learning. A handful of studies have looked specifically at individual differences in human associative learning, but while much work has concentrated on accounting for flexibility in learning caused by external factors, there has been limited work considering how to model the influence of dispositional factors. This review looks at the range of individual differences in human associative learning that have been explored and the attempts to account for, and model, this flexibility. To fully understand human associative learning, further research needs to attend to the causes of variation in human learning.

【 授权许可】

CC BY