L2 & L3 Learning and Memory

Question 1

What is learning?

Answer 1

Changed behaviour as a result of experience

changed storage of information in brain

usually through associative learning between two events -> co-occurrence is either temporal or casual

Question 2

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 2

Two events commonly occur together -> appearance of one brings the other to mind
Temporal

Question 3

What is systemic desensitisation?

Answer 3

Psychological treatment for phobias

List of increasingly scary situations
Least scary started with - begin relaxation process

Work your way up to the scarier ones (conditioned link)