Boothroyd L.G., Tove ́e M.J., Pollet, T.V. (2012) Visual Diet versus
Associative Learning as Mechanisms of Change in Body Size Preferences.
Not exact matches
Shettleworth notes that the unconscious connections of
associative learning can, even among people, produce complex behaviors, such
as unconsciously eating a bowl of cereal.
Previous studies focusing on spatial - reward
associative learning in foraging animals have assumed that foraging efficiency increases
as the forager
learns the locations of greater rewards.
However, there is an important difference between
associative behaviour, such
as learning to respond appropriately to an angry voice, and recognizing a range of very different cues that go together to indicate emotional arousal in another.
As we continue to practice information gathering that is less linear, we
learn to accept and digest content in loosely
associative clusters and interchangeable, floating fragments.