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Basic Principles of Learning

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Basic Principles of Learning

Basic principles of learning

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Basic Principles of
learning
The principles of learning
provide additional insight into
what makes people learn
most effectively.
The majority of these
principles are widely applied
in many fields.
Edward Thorndike developed the first three

“Laws of learning”. Readiness, exercise and


effect. Since Thorndike set down his basic three
laws in the early part of the twentieth century, the
additional principles have been added primacy,
recency, intensity, freedom and requirement
1. Readiness


Implies a degree of willingness and
eagerness of an individual to
learn something new.
2. Exercise


Things that are most often
repeated are best remembered.
3. Effect



Based on the emotional reaction
and motivation
4. Primacy


Things learned first create a strong
impression in the mind that is
difficult to erase.
5. Recency


Things most recently learned are
best remembered
6. Intensity

implies that a student will learn


more from the real thing than from
substitute.

7.Freedom



states that things freely learned are best learned.
Since learning is an active process.
8. Requirement


It may help us to learn or gain
something, a starting point or
root is needed.

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