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Propositional encodings are a subset of organization theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2009
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The notion that human associative learning is a usually conscious, higher-order process is one of the tenets of organization theory, developed over the past century. Propositional/sequential encoding is one of the possible types of organizational structures, but learning may also involve other structures.
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