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