meaning and definition of learning
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Meaning and defination of learning :-
According to Guilford, "We may define the term very broadly in saying that learning is any change in behaviour resulting from behaviour"
According to R S Woodworth and D G Marquis, "Learning consist in doing something new provided, this something new to be retained by the individual and reappears in his later activities"
On the basis of the above mentioned definition, the following conclusion can be drawn.
Learning is
Adaption and adjustment
Continuous process
Universal
Change in behaviour
Improvement and development
New organisation of experience
Full of purpose and goal directed.
Learning is the process of acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals, and some machines; there is also evidence for some kind of learning in certain plants.
Humans learn before birth and continue until death as a consequence of ongoing interactions between people and their environment. The nature and processes involved in learning are studied in many fields, including educational psychology, neuropsychology, experimental psychology, and pedagogy. Research in such fields has led to the identification of various sorts of learning. For example, learning may occur as a result of habituation, or classical conditioning, operant conditioning or as a result of more complex activities such as play, seen only in relatively intelligent animals. Learning may occur consciously or without conscious awareness. Learning that an aversive event can't be avoided nor escaped may result in a condition called learned helplessness. There is evidence for human behavioral learning prenatally, in which habituation has been observed as early as 32 weeks into gestation, indicating that the central nervous system is sufficiently developed and primed for learning and memory to occur very early on in development.