| Abstract: | Most of T. S. Kendler's critical review of my volume was devoted to a comparison of our developmental model of human learning with her own levels-of-function model. The exposition she offered is misleading in two important respects. First, she misconstrued a central aspect of our model. This concerns the relation between two behaviorally distinct types of hypotheses, predictions and response sets. This relation is clarified and evaluative data are summarized. Second, she concluded that the two models share many common characteristics. In fact, the commonalities hold at only the most superficial level. This is because the models differ in terms of the mechanisms they incorporate and their specificity (testability). |
