Talk:Spontaneous recovery
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Serious difficulties with this article[edit]
I've only checked the historical sections but the following seem to need serious attention
1. Seems to have extensive use of copyrighted material. For example, various sentences and larger chunks of the history section are copied, with a few wording changes, from Clark, R. E. (2004). "The Classical Origins of Pavlov`s Conditioning". Integrative Physiological & Behavioural Science 39: 279–294. This is a journal published by Springer (the journal now has a slightly different name).
I haven't yet followed other footnotes, but they are all to books and journal articles, and the language is quite professional. My guess is that they were lifted as well
The user has put footnotes to the the copied material, so he/she may not have been aware of doing anything wrong.
2. The history section is very long, but almost completely irrelevant to the topic of the article. It is about the history of classical conditioning, not about spontaneous recovery.
3. The material in question was all added by one user in a few days time, in around 200 rapid-fire edits.
(From the nature of the tesxt, the time scale, and the name of the user, one might guess that this is the work of a student in a psychology course, perhaps as a project or paper. ) User:Db4wp
For above reasons, and after further evidence of extensive cut-and-paste, I deleted "Origins" section. I suspect that a lot of the remainder of the article is also cut-and-paste, but at least the content is more relevant. User:Db4wp 23 August 2012
- It also appears to use a unique definition of hypermnesia, that is inconsistent with every other source readily available. There should be an article on hypermnesia. It's a fascinating condition.68.53.153.55 (talk) 03:26, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Incomplete citations[edit]
Several of the references (which have been tagged) need to be fleshed out by an editor who is familiar with the literature. Miniapolis (talk) 16:46, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
In art[edit]
Reference to the Funes the Memorious story probably can be added to Hypermnesia section. --Dennis714 (talk) 04:25, 26 November 2012 (UTC)