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Memory & learning
9 evidence-aware introductions, organized to help you connect concepts rather than memorize labels.
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Classical conditioning
Learning that one event predicts another, allowing a previously neutral cue to elicit a response.
Misinformation effect
Post-event information can alter later reports about an experienced event.
Observational learning
Learning by attending to others’ actions and their consequences.
Operant conditioning
Learning in which consequences change the future probability of behavior.
Reconstructive memory
The idea that remembering is an active reconstruction shaped by stored traces, knowledge, and the retrieval situation.
Retrieval practice
Actively recalling information can strengthen later retention more than additional passive exposure alone.
Serial-position effects
Items near the beginning and end of a sequence are often remembered better than items in the middle.
Spacing effect
Learning episodes distributed over time generally support longer-term retention better than the same time massed together.
Working memory
A limited system for temporarily maintaining and manipulating information in service of a task.