learning set

a phenomenon observed when a participant is given a succession of discrimination problems to learn, such as learning that one object contains a food reward and a different object does not. After a large number of such problems, the participant acquires a rule or mental set for solving them, and successive discriminations are learned faster. See learning to learn. [introduced in 1949 by Harry Harlow]

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November 22nd 2024

corpus planning

see language planning.