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Class - XI

Psychology

Chapter 6: Learning

MODULE - 3

(Topics: Verbal Learning)

Short Note

VERBAL LEARNING

▪ Verbal learning is different from conditioning and is limited to human beings.
▪ Human beings acquire knowledge about objects, events, and their features
largely in terms of words.

▪ Words then come to be associated with one another.
▪ Methods
Paired-Associates Learning :
✓ This method is similar to S-S conditioning and S-R learning.
✓ It is used in learning some foreign language equivalents of mother tongue
words.
✓ First, a list of paired-associates is prepared.
✓ The first word of the pair is used as the stimulus, and the second word as
the response.

✓ Members of each pair may be from the same language or two different
languages
✓ The first members of the pairs (stimulus term) are nonsense syllables
(consonant-vowel-consonant), and the second are English nouns (response
term).
✓ The learner is first shown both the stimulus-response pairs together, and is

instructed to remember and recall the response after the presentation of
each stimulus term.
✓ After that a learning trial begins.
✓ One by one the stimulus words are presented and the participant tries to
give the correct response term.
✓ In case of failure, s/he is shown the response word.
✓ In one trial all the stimulus terms are shown.