What are the three sequential mechanisms involved with learning? Explain how a mouse would learn to locate cheese
in a maze as indicated by these steps.
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: 1) storing memories 2) scanning memories when a stimulus is encountered 3) modifying
the response when a stimulus is encountered in accordance with the information stored as a
memory.
1) The mouse first has to find the cheese in a maze. 2) The second time he is put in the
maze, he will remember where that cheese is, and therefore 3) he will head directly to
where the cheese was the last time he was in the maze.
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