learning curve can also be called a retention curve

independent variable ; intervening variable

+ terms to relearn

  • extinction the loss of a skill or practice due to lack of stimuli
  • generalization grouping and responding to a different and similar stimuli to the one originally used
  • evolution
  • natural selection
  • cognitive map by edward tolman

instrumental conditioning also known as operant conditioning ; organisms learn to take responses in order to obtain or avoid important consequences, the organisms behavior is instrumental in determining whether the consequences occur

  • law of effect the relationship between behavior and consequence
  • reflex arc an automatuc pathway from a sensory stimulus to a motor response

renee decartes believed in

  • dualism the principle that the mind and brain were seperate from one another
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