“When two elementary brain processes have been active together or in immediate succession, one of them on re-occurring tends to propagate its excitement into the other”. This is:

“When two elementary brain processes have been active together or in immediate succession, one of them on re-occurring tends to propagate its excitement into the other”. This is: Correct Answer Associative Learning

The correct answer is Associative Learning

Key Points

  • Habitual Learning is a result of repetition.
  • Associative learning is a learning principle that states that ideas and experiences reinforce each other and can be mentally linked to one another. In a nutshell, it means our brains were not designed to recall information in isolation; instead, we group information together into one associative memory. That's why it is difficult to recall just one eyebrow without seeing the whole face. The theory and concept underlying the process of conditioning were the laws of association “when the laws were stated in quantitative form, there came a strong tendency to emphasize continuity of elements as having priority over the principles of similarity and contrast. Physiological explanations tended to rest primarily on contiguity”.
  • The law is- “When two elementary brain processes have been active together, or in immediate succession, one of them, on reoccurring tends to propagate its excitement into the other”.
  • Observational learning is learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others.
  • Insight learning is a process that leads to a sudden realization regarding a problem. Often, the learner has tried to understand the problem, but steps away before the change in perception occurs.

Related Questions

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.
The human eye is a complex part of the body that is used for seeing. Eyes enable people to perform daily tasks and to learn about the world that surrounds them. Sight, or vision, is a rapidly occurring process that involves continuous interaction between the eye, the nervous system, and the brain. When someone looks at an object, what he really sees is the light reflected from the object. This reflected light passes through the lens and falls on the retina of the eye. Here the light induces nerve impulses that travel through the optic nerve to the brain and then over other nerves to muscles and glands.
The eye is similar to a television camera. Both the eye and the television camera convert light energy to electrical energy. The eye converts light to nerve impulses that are interpreted by the brain as the sense perception called sight. A television camera converts light to electronic signals that are broadcast and transformed into light images in a television receiver. It is wonderful that human eyes blink an average of once every six seconds. This washes the eye with the salty secretion from the tear or lachrymal glands. Each tear gland is about the size and shape of an almond. These glands are situated behind the upper eyelid at the outer corner of the eye. After passing over the eye, the liquid from the gland is drained into the nose through the tear duct at the inner corner of the eye. The sense perception that the brain releases after the eye converts light to nerve impulses is known as