Category: Associative
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What is Non-Associative Learning?
Non-associative learning is a type of learning in which an animal or a person’s behavior changes as a result of repeated exposure to a stimulus, but without any connection to a particular reward or punishment. In non-associative learning, the response to a stimulus becomes either stronger or weaker, but there is no direct link between…
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Perception and Critical Thinking: How Attention Affects Intention
In today’s world, we are often tasked with processing debilitating levels of information at nearly all times. To meet this need, oftentimes the first sacrifice is our emotional investment in the activities around us: if we tried to keep up, pathetically, with emotional investment of all that happens, we would exhaust ourselves before breaching even…
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The Emotional Growth of Oneself: Vital Processes for Aging and Improving
An anxious response that some folk have is the urge to scratch oneself, and I often go through this response as well. The tart red lines of my fingers across my chest, shoulders, and neck provide annals of my worries. I’ve always done this, or at least for as long as I can remember noting…
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Associative Vs Non Associative Learning: Good Goals for Emotional Growth
One of my favorite things to share about myself is how much I love learning. Days and weeks and months of my life have been spent on the sheer pursuit of learning and interacting with things that were previously unknown. What I value most about the act of learning is not the discovery process –…
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Communication Strengths and Weaknesses to Improve Your Daily Relationships
Be courageous when reason fails you be courageousin the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts. Zbigniew Herbert Who hasn’t wished they could communicate themselves more clearly? Whether shyness, anxiety, lack of vocabulary or language, lack of knowledge, lack of confidence… there are hundreds of influences that may impede one’s ability to communicate.…
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Associative Behaviors: Processing a More Engaged Environment
Growing up in Farmington, learning moments often got thrust upon me in unconventional and difficult-to-immediately-resolve situations. For instance, at a friend’s birthday party when I was 8 or 9, his father took us for a ride in a large offroader through some fields full of cat grass, cottontail, and old corn stalks. The rare beauty…