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Intelligence and Learning

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Given the title of this volume, some of the questions one should expect to be at issue are surely: What has been, what is, and what should be the relationship between learning and intelligence? Are the referents of the two terms identical? Are they, rather, related like two sides of a coin? Or do they perhaps refer to levels of intellect or intellectual function?

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Estes, W.K. (1981). Intelligence and Learning. In: Friedman, M.P., Das, J.P., O’Connor, N. (eds) Intelligence and Learning. NATO Conference Series, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1083-9_2

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