There are many forms of learning, ranging from simple to complex. Simple forms of learning involve a single stimulus which is a environmental condition that is detectable to the senses, such as a sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste. There are three theories of learning that are used to study the way students learn: classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning. Classical conditioning, students learn to associate two stimuli that occur in sequence, such as the noon bell followed by lunch. In operant conditioning, students learn by forming an association between a behavior and its consequences either reward or punishment, such as t

How well a person learns a new task may depend on a person’s past experiences, but also how the mind deciphers and process the information received and its ability to remember and understand the information is known as information processing. There are three components of human memory and the first is sensory memory, in which information is held by the sensory system for only an instant. Working memory or short-term memory, the component of memory that holds limited amounts of information for immediate use. Long-term memory stores immense volumes of information for long periods of time and is broken down into three parts episodic, semantic, and procedural memory. Episodic memory store memory of past personal experiences, while semantic memory is the part of memory that stores facts and general knowledge. The last part of memory is procedural which refers to skill that people have and unlike episodic and semantic memory where people can recall facts and experiences. Procedural memory differs in that mem

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