Atomism in Learning (LTP)

The chapter in which we studied how learning takes place in the form of Long-term potentiation definitely takes the atomistic approach to studying the phenomena. This chapter reduced the potential ways humans learn from our environment and interactions with others all the way to the human brain and furthermore in the changes that take place in the subcomponents of the brain (neurons, synapses, etc.) This assumes that there is an actual physical trace that takes place within our brains that can be followed (like footprints in mud) to show how learning takes place. This can also be considered individualistic as it considers factors that lie within isolated individuals (i.e. all the traces of learning must take place in our brains)