Learning and Types .

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LEARNING AND TYPES
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LEARNING AND TYPES
Learning can be defined in various ways but most of the psychologists mainly agree that
it is the relatively permanent changes in behaviors of individuals resulting from experiences.
Learning is mainly seen to include physical changes in the nervous systems that involve
strengthening of the synapses as well as the activation of the neural pathways of the pruning of
the neural pathways. The field of the behavioral psychology mainly is mainly seen to focus on
the measurable behaviors that are mainly learned rather than putting focus and trying to learn the
actions of the internal states like attitudes and emotions (Mitchell et al., 2018). One important
aspect that is important to remember is that learning might include both beneficial as well as
negative behaviors. On many instances, people are seen to learn things that help individuals to
become more knowledgeable and thereby lead better quality lives. In the other instances, people
are seen to learn things that may be detrimental to the overall health as well as well-being of thee
individuals.
One form of learning mainly proposed by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov through
his experiments on the digestive system of the dogs is called the classical learning
methods. It takes place through the formation of associations. In this form of learning,
a neutral stimulus that helps in triggering a response naturally and automatically is
paired with another neural stimulus. Eventually, an association is developed is formed
and the previously neutral stimulus comes to be known as conditioned stimulus and
this helps in triggering a conditioned response. Operant learning is another procedure
of learning by which behaviors are reinforced is punished that helps in either