Learning

Give me a child at birth I can make him into

anything you want B.F.Skinner.

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All behavior is learnt.
Human beings are essentially blanks that are

shaped by environment

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Its what we did when we went to school

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In simple learning is understood as the

modification of behavior through training or

experience.
Learning can be defined as a relatively
permanent change in behavior that occurs as
a result of prior experience.

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Learning is not confined ones schooling.

Learning occurs throughout once life.

Learning happens in formal settings as well

as informally.

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Through learning we can influence a persons

abilities, perception and motivation.

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Learning is a powerful incentive for many to

stick to certain organization

- We stay here not very much for pay
cheques,but we keep learning

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Theories of learning.

- Three theories have been offered to explain

the process of learning.
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Social Learning.

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Theories of learning.

- Three theories have been offered to explain

the process of learning.
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Social Learning.

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Classical Conditioning theory by Ivan Pavlov
Russian Physiologist.
- Nobel Prize in 1904.
- For the study in Digestive
Processes.

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Essentially, learning a conditioned response

involves building up an association between a

conditioned stimulus and unconditional
stimulus.

How you can use it

At one manufacturing plant, every time the

top executives from the head office were

scheduled make visit, the plant manager
would clean up the admn office and wash the
windows.This went for years.
Eventually ,employees would turn on their
best behavior and look prim and proper
whenever the windows were cleaned.

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Visit from the head office Employees

behavior on their best.

Clean the window no response.
clean the window + Visit from HO Employees behavior on their best.
clean the window - Employees behavior on
their best.

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Theories of learning.

- Three theories have been offered to explain

the process of learning.
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Social Learning.

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Operant Conditioning

-By Harvard Psychologist

B.F.Skinner

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Behavior is the function of its consequences.
People learn to behave to get something they

want or to avoid something dont want.

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Skinner argued that creating pleasing

consequences to follow specific forms of

behavior would increase frequency of that
behavior.

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He argued that people will most likely to

engage in desired behavior if they are

positively reinforced for doing so.
Rewards are most effective if they
immediately follow the desired response.

How you can use it

Reinforcement is a consequence that

causes a behavior to occur with greater

frequency.
E.g. : Rewards are most effective if they
immediately follow the desired response
Punishment is a consequence that causes a
behavior to occur with less frequency.
E.g. : De-promotion , Fine

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Theories of learning.

- Three theories have been offered to explain

the process of learning.
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Social Learning.

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Social Learning

- Ability of a person to learn by observing

others.
- Social learning occurs in very informal and
inarticulate way.

 Albert Bandura is considered the leading

proponent of this theory.

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Social learning has considerable relevance in

OB.
A great deal of what is learnt about how to
behave in organization can be explained as a
result of the process of observational
learning.