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In education, one of the biggest problems is that learning is overly context dependent. Many people believe that situated learning is the most powerful, or even that all learning is situated, but the problem then is to get students to generalize beyond the specific situations in which they learned a concept or procedure.
Early behaviorists argued for a very molecular kind of learning, but this view is inconsistent with a great deal of evidence that animals learn about more abstract properties of tasks than the specific movement and that the movements are not reliably regular.
There is much local variability in the specific movements that instantiate an action. The same action can be accomplished in many ways and the same movements can be a part of many actions.
