cognitive sign principle

the belief that, through learning, stimuli come to signal outcomes or events in the environment (see S–S learning model). Edward C. Tolman offered cognitive sign learning as an alternative to the ideas of other behavioral theorists, such as Clark L. Hull, who postulated that stimuli become directly associated with responses (see S–R learning model).

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