week 1: introduction

Question 1

learning

Answer 1

long term change in mental respresentations or associations as a results of experience

Question 2

neurons

Answer 2

change connections, create new, delete existing

Question 3

synapses

Answer 3

change amount of transmitters they produce

Question 4

pruning

Answer 4

deleting thing you don’t need

Question 5

environmental stimulation

Answer 5

critical en sensitive periods
irretrievable loss: bad input

Question 6

plasticity

Answer 6

experience - expectant: stimuli just needs to be ther, quality not important
experience dependant: quality envormental input matters

Question 7

consolidation

Answer 7

short term to long term system (practice and sleep)