response learning

learning to perform a specific series of movements or responses. Edward C. Tolman contrasted response learning in mazes, in which the participant learns a sequence of left–right responses, with place learning, in which the participant develops a cognitive map of the maze. Also called movement learning.

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March 13th 2025

Life Events Rating Scale

an instrument used to measure the relative impact of diverse stress-producing life experiences, changes, and crises. The derived score is expressed in life-change units. The scale is more formally known as the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. [developed in 1967 by U.S. psychiatrists Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe]