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Learning is significantly affected by personal as well as environmental factors. Which of the following statement is correct in this context?
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences. Learning is a change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience.-Learning is influenced by two categories of factors: Personal and Environmental. Personal factors are such as motivation, ability, attitude, aptitude and interests, attention and age.Environmental factors are societal, economic, and cultural, community, religious, school. Personal factors that influence learning: Aptitude: Aptitude is the natural ability of a person to do a task. Some children are good at mathematics naturally while some others must put in a lot of hard work to perform well in mathematics. Some children have a natural ability to draw and paint while some others are very good at sports and games. Motivation: Motivation is an internal state that arouses and maintains behaviour. There are two types of motivation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation. Motivating a teenager means trying to encourage a teenager to use/her inner resources, sense of competence, self-esteem, and autonomy.Attitudes: One may think that rural India is where you find the true traditional dressing and behaviour. This is a preconceived notion that we have and may be termed an attitude. Attitudes are also born out of socialization. Our attitudes can be positive, negative, or neutralAptitude and attitude both are personal factors.Additional Information-Environmental Factors: The social-cultural environment in which the child grows has a high impact on the childs learning. For easy understanding, we divide the socio-cultural factors into (A) Family (B) Neighbourhood and Community (C) Class, caste, religion and ethnicity.Family is the first and most fundamental influence in the socialization process of the individual.It is through the family that a child undergoes conscious, subconscious and subliminal learning. It is within the family the individual learns behaviours patterns for survival, social skills, attitudes, interpersonal skills, social norms, the dos and donts of his culture, acquires value orientation.Neighbourhood and community: Many attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, habits, social roles are shaped directly or indirectly by our experiences with the persons in our neighbourhood Similarly, caste and religion also play a role in shaping our identity, attitudes, value orientation and achievement patterns.Religion, community and school are environmental factors. Hence, we can conclude that the right answer to this question is Aptitude and attitude both are personal factors.
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