Generalization-Discrimination- 2

Generalization

The transfer of past learning to novel events and problems.

Discrimination learning

The process by which animals or people learn to respond differently to different stimuli.

Concept formation

The process by which we learn about new categories of entities in the world, usually based on common features.

Generalization gradient

A curve showing how changes in the physical properties of stimuli correspond to changes in responding.

Stimulus control

The influence of cues in the world on an organism’s behavior.

Sensory preconditioning

Training in which presentation of two stimuli together as a compound results in a later tendency to generalize what is known about one of these stimuli to the other.

Acquired equivalence

A learning and generalization paradigm in which prior training in stimulus equivalence increases the amount of generalization between two stimuli, even if those stimuli are superficially dissimilar.

Negative patterning

A behavioral paradigm in which the appropriate response to individual cues is positive, whereas the appropriate response to their combination is negative (no response).

Tonotopic representation

Spatial arrangement of where sounds of different frequency are processed in the auditory cortex.

Cortical remapping

The process by which the response of a neuron changes based on training or sensory experience.

Plasticity of cortical representations

The ability of the cortical neural structure to change in response to training or learning.