Mr. Burke’s Physical Therapist Lisa is training him on using a walker, giving step-by-step instructions. He has a hard time consolidating and retrieving the instructions when she tells him what to do verbally. She has noticed he does better when she demonstrates or shows him pictures of each step. What does this tell you about where he may have sustained brain damage and why?

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Learning and memory

Learning is defined as a relatively permanent and irreversible adaptive change in behavior. It always results from experience. The ability of an organism to store and recall the effects, sensations, and knowledge gained through learning and experience is called memory.