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Explain how the environment, cognition and biology can influence learning
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Explain how the environment, cognition and biology can influence learning Learning is a fundamental part of life as we are learning ever day and without being able to learn we could not survive. In Psychology learning is generally about the different ways in which people learn and how the information is remembered rather than what is learned. Also people tend to believe that learning is deliberate. The way psychologists look at it is that learning isn't necessarily deliberate and can be learnt by observing the environment around us. The definition of learning is the gain of knowledge or a skill by study. In order to explain how the environment, cognition and biology can influence learning the focus of this essay will be on the nature-nurture debate. The nature argument is how biology can influence learning and this is believed by the nativists. They believe that learning is innate, which means that we...
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