learning
long term change in mental respresentations or associations as a results of experience
neurons
change connections, create new, delete existing
synapses
change amount of transmitters they produce
pruning
deleting thing you don’t need
environmental stimulation
critical en sensitive periods
irretrievable loss: bad input
plasticity
experience - expectant: stimuli just needs to be ther, quality not important
experience dependant: quality envormental input matters
consolidation
short term to long term system (practice and sleep)