Abstract
We use a rather simplified model of various levels of learning processes. This model is a comprehensive one in the sense that it tries to combine various theories about learning behavior, theories that often overaccentuate only one aspect of this behavior. A living organism is always responding to the stimuli that come from the environment and that have a certain influence on such an organism. It is not difficult to differentiate among various relationships, various patterns of stimuli plus the responses resulting from those stimuli. A certain stimulus, for instance the movement of an object towards the eye, produces a fixed type of response, in this case the shutting of the eye. Such a correlation between a certain stimulus and a certain response is called a reflex. An organisms possess an inventory of fixed reflexes. These are inborn, or, in other words, defined by heredity. The stimuli operate as signals that evoke a certain response from the organism. Those patterns of hereditary reflexes protect the organism against dangerous changes in its environment.
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van Peursen, C.A. (1981). Creativity as Learning Process. In: Dutton, D., Krausz, M. (eds) The Concept Of Creativity Science Art. Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8230-7_8
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