Learning

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  • Learning
    A relatively permanent change in your behavior, or behavioral potential, produced by experience
  • Approaches to Learning
    • Behavioral
    • Social cognitive
    • Information processing
    • Cognitive Constructivist
    • Social constructivist
  • Conditioning
    • Classical
    • Contiguous
    • Operant
  • Learning in psychology is defined as a relatively permanent change in your behavior, or behavioral potential, produced by experience
  • Learning refers to a permanent change in behavior and not a temporary change
  • Learning does not refer to the changes resulting from maturation
  • Learning can take place from direct as well as indirect experiences
  • Behaviorists proposed that the fundamental aspect of learning is the process of conditioning
  • Learning through insight as well as observational learning are the other types of learning in psychology
  • Behavioral Learning Examples

    • A child learns to ride a bicycle from his father
    • A woman experiences fear and anxiety while driving a car on a rainy day
    • An employee achieves double the sales target in the current quarter
    • An adolescent gets into the habit of consuming drugs and alcohol
    • Children study harder to earn a scholarship, trophy, or a medal at the end of the academic year
  • Characteristics of Learning
    • Learning happens when there is a permanent change in your behavior
    • Learning not only brings about a change in your existing behavior, but it also enables you to acquire new behavior
    • The changes brought about in your behavior via Learning would be stable and long-lasting
    • Learning prepares you to adjust and adapt to your environment
  • Learning as a Process and Not A Product
    Learning is an important and never-ending process<|>Learning is an ongoing process that takes place throughout life<|>Learning involves setting a definitive goal to satisfy your needs in a purposeful way
  • Learning is Goal-Directed
    • Learning involves a change in your behavior taking place through experience, exercise, and effort
    • Such a change in behavior is relatively permanent in nature
  • Learning is Universal and Continuous
    • Learning plays a dominant role in modifying and shaping your behavior from the very beginning
    • Learning plays a key role in shaping your personality and behavior
  • Learning Prepares For Adjustment
    • Learning helps you to adjust or adapt to a given environment
    • As you grow old, you acquire various habits, knowledge, attitudes, and skills as a result of Learning
  • Learning is Comprehensive
    • Learning covers all the domains of human behavior including Cognitive, Affective, Social, and Psychomotor
  • Learning does not include behavioral changes that occur due to maturation or native response tendencies
  • Favorable or Unfavorable Change in Behavior
    Changes can be favorable or unfavorable<|>Negative Learning refers to experiences that lead to negative changes in your behavior<|>Positive learning refers to experiences that lead to positive changes in your behavior
  • Learning Involves Experience
    • All learning involves some sort of experience
    • Learning may lead to discontinuance or abandonment of existing behavior
  • Learning does not include changes in your behavior that happen as a result of maturation