Learning and memory
How experience changes behavior, and how information is remembered and forgotten.
5 terms
Conditioning
Learning through associations and through the consequences of behavior.
- Classical conditioning 经典条件反射
- Learning that a neutral signal predicts a meaningful event, so the signal alone comes to trigger a response.
- Operant conditioning 操作性条件反射
- Learning from consequences: what follows a behavior changes how likely it is to happen again.
Memory
How memory is organized, how we forget, and what happens when memory is damaged.
- Multi-store memory model 记忆多重存储模型
- A classic 1968 model in which information passes through sensory, short-term and long-term memory stores.
- Forgetting curve 遗忘曲线
- Retention drops quickly at first and then ever more slowly, as Ebbinghaus showed in 1885.
- Amnesia 遗忘症
- Partial or total loss of memory for past experiences, or of the ability to store new memories.