learning, in psychology, the process by which a relatively lasting change in potential behavior occurs as a result of practice or experience.
Learning is distinguished from behavioral changes arising from such processes as maturation and illness, but does apply to motor skills, such as driving a car, to intellectual skills, such as reading, and to attitudes and values, such as prejudice.
Learning occurs throughout life in animals, and learnedbehavior accounts for a large proportion of all behavior in the higher animals, especially in humans.
Learning is a process that depends on experience and leads to longterm changes in behavior potential.
The main assumption behind all learningpsychology is that the effects of the enviromnent, conditioning, reinforcement, etc. provide psychologists with the best information from which to understand human behavior.
Major research traditions are behaviorism, Cognitivism (psychology) and self-regulated learning.
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