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How People Learn
PSYCH 538
Audarshia Flagg
University of Phoenix
Dr. Ginger Jacobs
September 1, 2008


















Learning can be defined as the knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study (Webster, 2008). Learning is a forever-ongoing process that continues throughout every individual life. Many theorists have set aside theories that contemplate the reason and how people learn. Learning can come from many aspects such as the role of society, environment, heredity, and behaviorism.
Humans are born with the potential to learn. According to John Locke, “He asserted that at birth the human mind is a blank slate, or tabula rasa, and empty of ideas. We acquire knowledge, he argued, from the information about the objects in the world that our senses bring to us. We begin with simple ideas and then combine them into more complex ones.” (Clark, 2000). All humans who are born into this world come with a fresh new beginning and a......

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