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- Types
- Non-associative learning
- Habituation
- Sensitization
- Active learning
- Associative learning
- Operant conditioning
- Classical conditioning
- Observational learning
- Imprinting
- Play
- Enculturation
- Episodic learning
- Multimedia learning
- E-learning and augmented learning
- Rote learning
- Meaningful learning
- Evidence-based learning
- Formal learning
- Non-formal learning
- Informal learning
- Nonformal learning and combined approaches
- Tangential learning
- Dialogic learning
- Incidental learning
- Domains
- Transfer
- Factors affecting learning
- Instructional techniques
- Genetics
- Socioeconomic and physical conditions
- Psychological factors
- Epigenetic factors
- General cognition-related factors
- Adult learning vs children's learning
- In animal evolution
- Costs and benefits of learned and innate knowledge
- In plants
- Machine learning
- See also
- Information theory
- Types of education
- References
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
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Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behavior, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, other animals, and some machines.; there is also evidence for some kind of learning in certain plants. Some learning is immediate, induced by a single event (e.g. being burned by a hot stove), but much skill and knowledge accumulate from repeated experiences. The changes induced by learning often last a lifetime, and it is hard to distinguish learned material that seems to be "lost" from that which cannot be retrieved.