LEARNING AND COGNITION
Lecture 3
,Learning outcomes
,Introduction to Learning
Definition of Learning:
• Cambridge Dictionary: Knowledge or a piece of information obtained by study or experience
• A process through which we acquire new knowledge, skills, behaviors, or understanding
• A persisting change in human performance as a result of the learner’s interaction with the
environment” (Driscoll, 1994).
• The relatively permanent change in a person’s knowledge or behavior due to experience” (M
1982).
• An enduring change in behavior, or in the capacity to behave in a given fashion, which result
practice or other forms of experience (Shuell,1986).
, • Every modification in behavior to meet environmental requirements.
(Gardner Murphy, 1968)
• Acquisition of new behavior or the strengthening or weakening of old behavior as the res
of experience (Henry P Smith, 1962)
• Relatively permanent change in behavior which occurs as a result of practice or experienc
• Learning is a habit formation and based on the principle of association and substitution.
Change in behavior
• change- better or worse
• change that take place through practice or experience; changes due to growth and
maturation are not learning
Lecture 3
,Learning outcomes
,Introduction to Learning
Definition of Learning:
• Cambridge Dictionary: Knowledge or a piece of information obtained by study or experience
• A process through which we acquire new knowledge, skills, behaviors, or understanding
• A persisting change in human performance as a result of the learner’s interaction with the
environment” (Driscoll, 1994).
• The relatively permanent change in a person’s knowledge or behavior due to experience” (M
1982).
• An enduring change in behavior, or in the capacity to behave in a given fashion, which result
practice or other forms of experience (Shuell,1986).
, • Every modification in behavior to meet environmental requirements.
(Gardner Murphy, 1968)
• Acquisition of new behavior or the strengthening or weakening of old behavior as the res
of experience (Henry P Smith, 1962)
• Relatively permanent change in behavior which occurs as a result of practice or experienc
• Learning is a habit formation and based on the principle of association and substitution.
Change in behavior
• change- better or worse
• change that take place through practice or experience; changes due to growth and
maturation are not learning
