Learning

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Learning 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. Behavior potential describes the possible behavior of an individual (not actual behavior) in a given situation in order to achieve a goal.

Short term changes in behavior potential, such as fatigue, do not constitute learning. Some long-term changes in behavior potential result from aging and development, rather than learning.

Education is the conscious attempt to promote learning in others.

Here are a few theories and subcategories of learning:

Cognition

Experiential education

Erudition

Formulating knowledge for learning

Instructional technology

Motor learning

Language education

Lifelong education

Learning music by ear

Learning disability