Concept of Learning

The concept of “we learn something new every day” is not just a saying but is a saying, which holds truth. We learn something new in school, our careers, our daily lives, and in the world. Some of our learning may change our behavior or our way of thinking. To fully understand the concept of learning, let us look at an in-depth knowledge, which will be addressed in the following: describe the concept of learning, distinguish between learning and performance. Last I compare and contrast the conceptual approaches to the study of learning.

Describe the concept of learning

Before I can describe the concept of learning and before one can understand the concept of learning we must define learning first. According to Terry learning is “defined as a permanent change in one’s behavior or in one’s behavioral repertoire that occurs as a result of experience.” Before I continue with providing the concepts of learning we must understand fully of why we study the concept of learning. In psychology there are at least eight diverse phenomena of learning. Here are just a few of those eight diverse learning:

“Learning involves events as diverse as the acquisition of an isolated muscle twitch a prejudice, a symbolic concept or a neurotic system.”

“Learning deals with the behavior of the average subject and with individual differences among people.”

“Learning is concerned with the original acquisition of a response or knowledge with its later disappearance (extinction) its retention over time (memory) and its possible value in the acquisition of new response (transfer of training)

As I stated, learning can determine one’s behavior studying the eight diverse phenomena will provide more insight to a person learning ability and behavior.

Distinguish between learning and performance.

One may not realize that learning and performance do go hand-in-hand. Learning is receiving knowledge and experience, performance is putting the learning and knowledge to use.