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Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, behaviors, skills, values or preferences through experience. It can involve synthesizing different types of information and occurs in humans, animals, and some machines. Learning takes place through education, personal development and training and may be aided by motivation. It is studied in fields like neuropsychology, educational psychology, and learning theory. Learning can occur consciously or unconsciously through processes like habituation, conditioning, play, and practice.

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Learning

Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, behaviors, skills, values or preferences through experience. It can involve synthesizing different types of information and occurs in humans, animals, and some machines. Learning takes place through education, personal development and training and may be aided by motivation. It is studied in fields like neuropsychology, educational psychology, and learning theory. Learning can occur consciously or unconsciously through processes like habituation, conditioning, play, and practice.

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Learning

Learning is acquiring

 Knowledge
 Behaviors
 Skills
 Values
 Preferences or Understanding

It may involve synthesizing different types of information.

The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines.

Human learning may occur as part of education, personal development, or training.

It may be goal-oriented and may be aided by motivation.

The study of how learning occurs is part of neuropsychology, educational psychology,


learning theory, and pedagogy.

Learning may occur as a result of habituation or classical conditioning, seen in many animal
species, 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.

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.

Psychological Definition of Learning


In psychology, the process by which a relatively lasting change in potential behavior occurs
as a result of practice or experience. Learning is distinguished from behavioral changes
arising from such processes as maturation and illness, but does apply to motor skills, such
as driving a car, to intellectual skills, such as reading, and to attitudes and values, such as
prejudice. There is evidence that neurotic symptoms and patterns of mental illness are also
learned behavior. Learning occurs throughout life in animals, and learned behavior accounts
for a large proportion of all behavior in the higher animals, especially in humans.

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