IMPLICIT LEARNING - INDIRECT, NOT UNCONSCIOUS

Dienes and Berry (1997) argue that there really are two kinds of knowl edge, implicit and explicit, that can be characterized through a subje ctive threshold. We argue that the subjective threshold does not separ ate two forms of knowledge, but instead two uses of knowledge, for two different purposes. With Neal and Hesketh (1997), we suggest that an understanding of learning will be better served by investigating the p rocessing that occurs under various circumstances than by attempting t o isolate learning that occurs with awareness from that which occurs w ithout it.