Nature & Types of learning

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Nature Types of learning

• Presented
• By
• MD. MONSUR RAHMAN
• MPT (Musculoskeletal Disorder)
  
  
• MM INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOTHERAPY REHABILITATION
  MULLANA, AMBALA
  

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Learning

• Learning is the acquisition of habits, knowledge
  attitudes. It involves new ways of doing things
  and it operates in individuals attempts to
  overcome barrier or to adjust new situations.
• It represents progressive changes in behaviour.
  It enables him to satisfy interests to attain
  goals. (Crow crow)

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NATURE OF LEARNING

• Learning is Universal.
• Every creature that lives learns. Man learns
  most. The human nervous system is very complex,
  so are human reactions and so are human
  acquisition.
• Learning is Through Experience.
• Learning always involves some kind of experience,
  direct or indirect (vicarious).

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• Learning is from all Sides 
• Today learning is from all sides. Children learn
  from parents, teachers, environment, nature,
  media etc.
• Learning is Continuous.
•  It denotes the lifelong nature of learning.
  Every day new situations are faced and the
  individual has to bring essential changes in his
  style of behaviour adopted to tackle them.
  Learning is birth to death.

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• Learning results in Change in Behaviour. 
• It is a change of behaviour influenced by
  previous behaviour. It is any activity that
  leaves a more or less permanent effect on later
  activity.
• Learning is an Adjustment.
• Learning helps the individual to adjust himself
  adequately to the new situations. Most learning
  in children consists in modifying, adapting, and
  developing their original nature. In later life
  the individuals acquire new forms of behaviour

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• Learning comes about as a result of practice.
• It is the basis of drill and practice. It has
  been proven that students learn best and retain
  information longer when they have meaningful
  practice and repetition. Every time practice
  occurs, learning continues.
• Learning is a relatively Permanent Change. 
• After a rat wake up from his nap he still
  remembers the path to the food. Even if we have
  been on a bicycle for years, in just a few
  minutes practice we can be quite proficient again.

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• Learning as Growth and Development.
• It is never ending growth and development. At
  reach stage the learner acquires new visions of
  his future growth and news ideals of achievement
  in the direction of his effort.
• According to Woodworth, All activity can be
  called learning so far as it develops the
  individual
• Learning is not directly observable. 
• The only way to study learning is through some
  observable behaviour. Actually, we cannot observe
  learning we see only what precedes performance,
  the performance itself, and the consequences of
  performance

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Types of Learning

• 1. Motor learning
• Most of our activities in our day-to-days life
  refer to motor activities.
• The individual has to learn them in order to
  maintain his regular life, for example walking,
  running, skating, driving, climbing, etc. All
  these activities involve the muscular
  coordination
• 2. Verbal learning
• This type of learning involves the language we
  speak, the communication devices we use. Signs,
  pictures, symbols, words, figures, sounds, etc,
  are the tools used in such activities. We use
  words for communication.

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• 3. Concept learning
• It is the form of learning which requires higher
  order mental processes like thinking, reasoning,
  intelligence, etc.
• we learn different concepts from childhood. For
  example, when we see a dog and attach the term
  dog, we learn that the word dog refers to a
  particular animal.
• 4. Discrimination learning
• Learning to differentiate between stimuli and
  showing an appropriate response to these stimuli
  is called discrimination learning. Example, sound
  horns of different vehicles like bus, car,
  ambulance, etc.

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• 5. Learning of principles
• Individuals learn certain principles related to
  science, mathematics, grammar, etc. in order to
  manage their work effectively. These principles
  always show the relationship between two or more
  concepts. Example formulae, laws, associations,
  correlations, etc.
• 6. Problem solving
• This is a higher order learning process. This
  learning requires the use of cognitive
  abilities-such as thinking, reasoning,
  observation, imagination, generalization, etc.
  This is very useful to overcome difficult
  problems encountered by the people

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• 7. Attitude learning
• Attitude is a predisposition which determines and
  directs our behaviour. We develop different
  attitudes from our childhood about the people,
  objects and everything we know. Our behaviour may
  be positive or negative depending upon our
  attitudes. Example attitudes of nurse towards
  her profession, patients, etc.

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