Answer to Question #307334 in English for Layla

Question

Question 1

A) what is learning? Give the definition that you cite from five sources.(10)

B) explain how the three ineffective strategies for extinction influenced you in your years as a learner. (9)

Answer 1

1. Learning as a quantitative increase in knowledge. Learning is acquiring information or ‘knowing a lot’.
2. Learning as memorising. Learning is storing information that can be reproduced.
3. Learning as acquiring facts, skills and methods that can be retained and used as necessary.
4. Learning as making sense or abstracting meaning. Learning involves relating parts of the subject matter to each other and to the real world.
5. Learning as interpreting and understanding reality in a different way. Learning involves comprehending the world by reinterpreting knowledge. (quoted in Ramsden 1992: 26)