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Class - XI

Psychology

Chapter 6: Learning

MODULE - 5

(Topics: Factors, Learning Style, Learning disabilities and application)

Short Note

FACTORS FACILITATING LEARNING
Continuous vs. Partial Reinforcement

▪ It has been found that extinction of a response is more difficult following partial

reinforcement than following continuous reinforcement.
▪ The fact that the responses acquired under partial reinforcement are highly

resistant to extinction is called partial reinforcement effect.
Motivation

▪ Motivation is a mental as well as a physiological state, which arouses an

organism to act for fulfilling the current need.

▪ In other words, motivation energises an organism to act vigorously for

attaining some goal.
Preparedness of Learning

▪ The kinds of S-S or S-R learning an organism can easily acquire depends on the

associative mechanism it is genetically endowed with or prepared for.

▪ A particular kind of associative learning is easy for apes or human beings but

may be extremely difficult and sometimes impossible for cats and rats.
▪ It implies that one can learn only those associations for which one is genetically

prepared.

LEARNING STYLES

▪ Learning style may be defined as ‘a learner’s consistent way of responding to and
using stimuli in the context of learning’.