Learning to a Human: Reflection on Learning.

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- What is learning (to a human) how has it shaped who you are:

Learning to a human is the process of acquiring knowledge or skill through study, experience or teaching. It is a process that depends on experience and leads to long-term changes in behavior potential. It has shaped us through our behavior in a given situation in order to achieve a goal.

- The implications of our capacity to learn to:

-move us forward

-control us / possibly move us backward

The relative importance of Associative Learning is that the learning is based on the assumption that ideas and experiences reinforce one another and can be linked to enhance the learning process.

In Psychology cognitive learning is used to refer to the mental processes of an individual, with particular relation to a view that argues that the mind has internal mental states (such as beliefs, desires and intentions) and can be understood in terms of information processing, especially when a lot of abstraction or concretization is involved, or processes such as involving knowledge, expertise or learning for example are at work.

It is also used in a wider sense to mean the act of knowing or knowledge, and may be interpreted in a social or ural sense to describe the emergent development of knowledge and concepts within a group that culminate in both thought and action.

Discuss a point of your choice.

Observational learning or social learning is learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in others. It is most associated with the work of psychologist Albert Bandura, who implemented some of the seminal studies in the area and initiated social learning theory.

Although observational learning can take place at any stage in life, it is thought to be particularly important during...