The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 2,888 atoms across 3 types and 2 molecules
Habits form when repeated behavior in stable contexts produces rewards, creating automatic context-response associations that trigger behavior without conscious deliberation.
Adult human brains retain the capacity to reorganize neural pathways throughout life in response to changes in input and behavior, automatically detecting and extracting statistical regularities from repeated input without conscious instruction.
Experience and cultural training shape perceptual processing itself at preconscious levels, enabling the system to make distinctions it previously could not make and causing people from different backgrounds to literally perceive different features of objectively identical stimuli.
Early cognitive schemas are installed by environmental input during critical developmental periods rather than being self-generated or innately specified in detail.