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===== Definitions of Learning ===== | ===== Definitions of Learning ===== | ||
- | There is **no single accepted definition of learning**, since it depends on one's point of view. Most commonly accepted **[[learning_paradigms|learning paradigms]]** suggest learning is: | + | There is **no single accepted definition of learning**, since it depends on one's point of view or a //learning paradigm//. Most commonly accepted **[[learning_paradigms|learning paradigms]]** suggest learning is: |
* a visible change in one's behavior which can be measured((See: [[learning_paradigms:Behaviorism]].)) | * a visible change in one's behavior which can be measured((See: [[learning_paradigms:Behaviorism]].)) | ||
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* "//the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing something: the activity of someone who learns.//"(([[http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/learning|Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary: Learning.]] Retrieved September 6th, 2011.)) | * "//the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing something: the activity of someone who learns.//"(([[http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/learning|Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary: Learning.]] Retrieved September 6th, 2011.)) | ||
* "//all relatively permanent changes in potential for behavior that result from experience but are not due to fatigue, maturation, drugs, injury, or disease.//"(([[http://books.google.com/books?id=w1IORQAACAAJ|Lefrancois, G. R. Theories of Human Learning: What the Old Man Said. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning. 2000.]])) | * "//all relatively permanent changes in potential for behavior that result from experience but are not due to fatigue, maturation, drugs, injury, or disease.//"(([[http://books.google.com/books?id=w1IORQAACAAJ|Lefrancois, G. R. Theories of Human Learning: What the Old Man Said. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning. 2000.]])) | ||
- | * "//a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience. This definition focuses on a change in mental associations, an internal change that we cannot observe.//" (([[http://books.google.com/books?id=A6UhKQEACAAJ|Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.]])) | + | * "//a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience.//" (([[http://books.google.com/books?id=A6UhKQEACAAJ|Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.]])) |