Learning Skills — psychology STD 12 Arts — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ArtspsychologyLearning Skills5 Marks
Question
What is learning? Explain its components.
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Answer
CT Morgan, an American psychologist, defines education as "a relative, permanent change in behavior through experience and effort."
Components of education:
(1) Experience is the result of practice or effort:
If the behavior of human or animal changes through experience, training or practice, it is called "education".
If the change in behavior is due to maturity, fatigue, disease or injury, it is not called education in psychological language.
E.g. It is not called education when a child is three-four months old and learns to lie down in bed.
Here the child learns to be upside down as he matures.
(2) Changes in behavior:
The teaching of anything is said only when there is a change in its behavior than before.
For example, when a child does not know how to ride a bicycle, he falls off the bicycle in the initial attempt.
But with repeated effort he learns to ride a bicycle.
Thus, the change in the function of cycling here is called education. Thus, education is a change in behavior.
(3) Relative change:
Mostly education is established or lasts a long time.
Such short-term behavioral changes due to fatigue, injury, or intoxication are not called education.
Thus, education is a relative or permanent change for a long time.
E.g. when working on a computer, initially you have to look for different letters on the keyboard, but after a few days of practice, the fingers of the hand fall on the letters on the keyboard.
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