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"This poses an interesting problem that every pet trainer has faced. You can't train what NOT to do unless the animal first produces the disallowed behaviour." - teachers need to force mistakes from their students in order for them to learn better?
— Jul 03, 2023 05:50AM
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Adrian Buck
is on page 141 of 528
"Biases affecting how often and when different learning strategies are employed or withheld can radically change what can be learned and how easy or difficult it is to learn it" - he presumably means biolological rather than intentional learning
— Jul 29, 2023 08:20AM

Adrian Buck
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"I have argued that the underlying source of each of the apparent paradoxes of language learning is a misleading assumption that learning is a one-dimensional process, in which a collection of individual memories is built up bit by bit, like adding items to a list, and in which general rules can only be derived by inductive generalizations.." - explains my struggle with Hungarian, but not multi-dimension learning
— Jul 26, 2023 04:34AM

Adrian Buck
is on page 140 of 528
"I have argued that the underlying source of each of the apparent paradoxes of language learning is a misleading assumption that learning is a one-dimensional process, in which a collection of individual memories is built up bit by bit, like adding items to a list, and in which general rules can only be derived by inductive generalizations..." - explains my struggle with Hungarian, but not multi-dimension learning.
— Jul 26, 2023 03:24AM

Adrian Buck
is on page 140 of 528
"I have argued that the underlying source of each of the apparent paradoxes of language learning is a misleading assumption that learning is a one-dimensional process, in which a collection of individual memories is built up bit by bit, like adding items to a list, and in which general rules can only be derived by inductive generalizations..." - explains my struggle with Hungarian, but not multi-dimension learning.
— Jul 26, 2023 03:18AM

Adrian Buck
is on page 140 of 528
"I have argued that the underlying source of each of the apparent paradoxes of language learning is a misleading assumption that learning is a one-dimensional process, in which a collection of individual memories is built up bit by bit, like adding items to a list, and in which general rules can only be derived by inductive generalizations..." - explains my struggle with Hungarian, but not multi-dimension learning.
— Jul 26, 2023 03:18AM

Adrian Buck
is on page 140 of 528
"I have argued that the underlying source of each of the apparent paradoxes of language learning is a misleading assumption that learning is a one-dimensional process, in which a collection of individual memories is built up bit by bit, like adding items to a list, and in which general rules can only be derived by inductive generalizations..." - explains my struggle with Hungarian, but not multi-dimension learning.
— Jul 26, 2023 03:16AM