{"id":8322,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/learning\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:27","slug":"learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A concept with a long history and many shades of meaning. &nbsp;Commonly,&nbsp;learning is understood to be a slow change of behavior induced by experience. &nbsp;Habituation, conditioning, stimulus-response association, and adaptation are all forms of learning. &nbsp;More generally, it is a change in capacity or disposition to behave resulting from experience, and that leads to a behavior being added to an organism&#8217;s repertoire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"avoidance_learning\">Avoidance learning<\/a>, <a href=\"bayesian_learning\">Bayesian learning<\/a>, <a href=\"behaviorism\">Behaviorism<\/a>, <a href=\"category_learning\">Category learning<\/a>, <a href=\"classical_conditioning\">Classical conditioning<\/a>, <a href=\"delay-ed-_conditioning\">Delay(ed) conditioning<\/a>, <a href=\"escape_learning\">Escape learning<\/a>, <a href=\"experience\">Experience<\/a>, <a href=\"exposure_learning\">Exposure learning<\/a>, <a href=\"habituation\">Habituation<\/a>, <a href=\"imprinting\">Imprinting<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-1-\">Innate (1)<\/a>, <a href=\"memory\">Memory<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_learning\">Motor learning<\/a>, <a href=\"object_reversal_test\">Object reversal test<\/a>, <a href=\"observational_learning\">Observational learning<\/a>, <a href=\"operant_-or_instrumental-_conditioning\">Operant (or instrumental) conditioning<\/a>, <a href=\"plasticity_-experiential-\">Plasticity (experiential)<\/a>, <a href=\"positive_reinforcement\">Positive reinforcement<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcement_schedule\">Reinforcement schedule<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcer\">Reinforcer<\/a>, <a href=\"statistical_learning\">Statistical learning<\/a>, <a href=\"stimulus_generalization\">Stimulus generalization<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A concept with a long history and many shades of meaning. &nbsp;Commonly,&nbsp;learning is understood to be a slow change of behavior induced by experience. &nbsp;Habituation, conditioning, stimulus-response association, and adaptation are all forms of learning. &nbsp;More generally, it is a change in capacity or disposition to behave resulting from experience, and that leads to a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}