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The thesis presents a new approach for the study of competent cognitive behavior. The approach, learning to be competent, suggests that learning phenomena and the competencies attributed to intelligence should be studied together. Instead of requiring omniscience or otherwise optimal performance, we claim that the tasks and success criteria should be de ned behaviorally; that is, a system is co...