Donald Hebb's The Organization Of Behavior

Learning is the acquisition of new information or knowledge and memory is the retention of learned information. The Canadian psychologist, Donald Hebb pointed out that memories can result from subtle alteration in synapses, and these alterations can be widely distributed in the brain. Hebb reasoned in his book “The Organisation of Behaviour” that the internal representation of an object ( for example a circle drawn on a piece of paper ) consists of all the cortical cells activated by the stimulus ( the cell assembly ). All the cells in such an assembly are all interconnected by reciprocal connections. The internal representation is maintained in short term memory as long as the activity reverberated through the connection. If such activation persists long enough, consolidation would occur by a “growth process”, that will …show more content…
(i) Procedural or Implicit Learning

Declarative memories are easily formed and forgotten and they may result from small modification at the synaptic level. However, procedural memories are more robust and involve learning a motor response ( procedure ) in response to a sensory input. It can be further subdivided into non-associative and associative learning.

(a) Non-Associative Learning - Habituation and