Question Bank [2022] — Psychology STD 12 Commerce / Arts — Question

Learning in terms of what you need to do before an upcoming exam, or acquiring new skills like dancing or cycling, but is only a small segment of the vast learning process which encompasses all arrays of life including school learning, learning various skills, learning about places and people and many more.

Thus, learning can be defined as “a relatively permanent change in the behavior that occurs due to experience or practice."

Learning is a complex process. There are many processes of learning. The learning by the cognitive processes is explained as follows:

Just when Skinner and Pavlov were talking about connections and consequences of behavior, Edward Tolman demonstrated that though rats in his experiment were not given any food, they still learned about the different pathways in the maze. That means rats created 'maps' in the mind just for the sake of it. His experiment demonstrated that learning may take place in the 'mind' using 'mental' processes, what we call cognitive processes now.