learning (redirected from Acquisition (psychology))

learning /learn·ing/ (lern´ing) a long-lasting adaptive behavioral change due to experience.

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latent learning  that which occurs without reinforcement, becoming apparent only when a reinforcement or reward is introduced.

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learn·ing (lûrnng)

n.

1. The act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skill.

2. Knowledge or skill gained through schooling or study.

3. Behavioral modification, especially through experience or conditioning.

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learning,

n the process of acquiring knowledge or some skill by means of study, practice, and/or experience.

learning disability,

n an inability to learn at a rate comparable to most members of a peer group. Some learning disorders have been traced to nutritional and behavioral causes, others stem from trauma or disease, and still others have genetic origins.

learning domains,

n.pl the three spheres of learning–cognitive, affective, and psychomotor–that must be addressed by a teacher in order to influence behavioral change on the part of the learner. May be applied to the teaching of disease control.

learning-ladder continuum

(kntin´ūm),
n theory suggesting that learning takes place in sequential steps beginning with ignorance and culminating with habit. The process may be applied to the teaching of effective plaque control.

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learning

learning is remembering associations. A memory is essential to learning and animals have both a memory and the ability to learn in variable degrees. There are a number of ways in which learning can be achieved or facilitated: imprinting, especially of the neonate; conditioning, including simple association and instrumental and avoidance conditioning; operant conditioning; visceral learning; discriminative learning; generalization of stimuli; and habituation.

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discriminative learning

the basis of Pavlovian research; teaching animals to choose the correct behavioral response by a positively reinforcing reward when they do.