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Learning, the acquisition of information or skills, is not distinct from intelligence since intelligence is defined in terms of learning and related processes. In the analysis of learning, a distinction is made between the internal process and the external act. The reason for this is that we see only the act and not the process.
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Botwinick, J. (1967). Problems of Measuring Learning. In: Cognitive Processes in Maturity and Old Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39890-6_3
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