Memory Atlas

Have you ever wondered why your dog can recognize the sound of your car from a street full of passing vehicles? Or why you can instantly tell your phone’s notification sound from someone else’s? This amazing skill is called discrimination-  the brain’s way of sorting out what’s important from all the noise around us! What is Discrimination?                                                                                                     Source- M1 psychology In behavioral psychology, discrimination isn’t about unfair treatment- it’s about learning to react differently to similar things. It’s like a mental filter that helps us know when to respond and when to ignore. For example, ima...

Imagine you’re learning to ride a bicycle. At first, you might practice on a particular bike- let’s say it’s red with big tires. Once you get good at balancing, pedaling, and steering, you can ride any bike-whether it’s blue, small, or even a mountain bike. This ability to apply what you learned from one bike to many different types is called generalization .                                                 Source-wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Generalization_process_using_trees.svg What Exactly is Generalization? Generalization happens when something you learn in one situation helps you handle similar situations. It’s like making shortcuts in your brain so you don’t have to learn from scratch every time. This process is super helpful because life throws lots of similar situations at us. Let’s look at a example: Imagine a dog trained to drool when it hears a bell beca...