This document discusses learning and its determinants and theories. It defines learning as the process of enriching human life and affecting behavior in organizations. The determinants of learning include motives like drives that promote action, and stimuli from the environment, which can lead to generalization, discrimination, responses, reinforcement, and retention. Theories of learning discussed are classical conditioning as proposed by Ivan Pavlov, operant learning from B.F. Skinner, cognitive theory focusing on symbols and knowledge, and social learning theory involving observational and experiential learning through attention, retention, reproduction, and reinforcement of role models. The document also outlines the process of learning as involving experience, behavioral change, and observable learning.

1. Presented by,
Shukun karthika. G,
Periyar Maniammai University,
Tanjore.
LEARNING

2. LEARNING
 The process of learning has great value for
enriching the human life in all shape.
 Learning definitely affects the human behavior in
organization.
 Example:
A worker’s skill, a managers attitude, a
supervisor’s motivation and a secretary's mode of
dress are all learning.

3. DETERMINANTS OF
LEARNING
 Motive:
Drives promote people to action.
Primary energisers of behaviour.
 Stimuli:
 Object existing in the environment in which a
person lives.
 Generalisation,
 Discrimination,
 Responses,
 Reinforcement,
 Retention.

4. Stimuli
Generalisation:
 Two stimuli which are exactly alike.
Discrimination:
 There should be no discrimination among the working
place.
 Mainly should not show attitude or manner towards workers.
Responses:
 Preferable physical observation.
 That is physical form, perception, attitude or situation.
Retention:
 Remembrance of learning behaviour one time.
 And which is forgotten over time is called extinction.

5. THEORY OF LEARNING
 Classical conditioning,
 Operant Learning,
 Cognitive Theory,
 Social Learning Theory.

6. Classical conditioning
 Stated by Ivan Pavlov.
 Learning is defined by the outward expression of
new behaviors.
 Focuses solely on observable behaviors.
 Based on the experiments to teach dog to
respond to bell when once rang.

7. Cont.
 Therefore it is a logical oriented example.
 But these had limitations.
 Human beings are more complex than dogs but less
amenable to simple cause and effect conditionings.
 Behavioural environment is complex.
 Human’s decision making is always complex.

8. Operant Learning
 Stated by Skinner as Skinner’s Pigeon Box.
 The consequence may be either positive or
negative.
 Rewards and punishments.
 Highly based on Lecture.

9. Cognitive Theory
 Stated by Kohler.
 Refers to individual thoughts, knowledge,
interpretations, or view about oneself and their
environment.
 Learning is the process of connecting symbols in
a meaningful & memorable way.
Memorizing

10. Social Learning Theory
 Learning through both observational and
experience.
 Example:
If a person is getting job/promotion his character
sometimes will be imitating his role model.

11. Cont.
 Social Learning Theory determines four process:
 Attention Process:
 By Paying attention to their role models.
 Retention Process:
 Memorizing the behaviour of the role model.
 Motor reproduction Process:
 Totally converting their model’s action as their action.
 Reinforcement Process:
 If their motivated to present their model action with rewards.

12. PROCESS OF LEARNING:
1. Learning involves some kind of experience:
Procedural learning (knowing how).
 Skilled action.
 Based on skill.
Declarative learning (knowing that).
 Store of factual knowledge.
 Understanding the situation.
2. Behavioral change due to learning relatively
permanent.
3. Learning can be observed directly.

13. Process of learning

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