LEARNING

Learning is described as a "relatively permanent change in and organism's behavior due to experience." This means that through various experiences, animals or humans learn to show certain types of behaviors or suppress others, depending on whether the consequences are positive or negative. Some learning happens but is not demonstrated until there is an incentive for it, such as sitting in a language class but not speaking the language until you are in a country in which that language is spoken.

Some other types of learning are: Associative Learning and Observational Learning.

Associative Learning is the process of learning by associating two different events or stimuli. These stimuli could be a response and its consequence such as seeing a dark sky and preparing for rain.

Observational Learning is the process of learning by watching the actions of others. This method is especially used by children, who mimic things that their parents or other role models do. An example of OL is learning to tie your shoe by watching someone else do it.

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