Mental Process
learning Audio
learn·ing [ lur-ning ]
Subclass of:
Psychology, Educational; Mental Processes
Definitions related to learning:
  • Any process in an organism in which a relatively long-lasting adaptive behavioral change occurs as the result of experience.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
  • Process by which knowledge, skills, or behaviors are acquired by instruction, study, or experience.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of past experience or practice. The concept includes the acquisition of knowledge.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • The act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skill.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Learning, the alteration of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn. The array of learned behaviour includes discrimination learning (where a subject learns to respond to a limited range of sensory characteristics...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025
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