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Psychology of learning the basic laws of learning and behavior chinese paperback january 1 1991 by unknown author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. His laws namely law of exercise law of readiness and law of effect have been accepted by all we may discuss here some of common major laws propounded by thorndike and other psychologists law of exercise primary laws of learning this law is also called law of use and disuse. In the operant conditioning sense learning refers to the process of increasing the likelihood of a behavior occurring or not occurring based on its consequences in the social learning theory sense learning refers to discovering things by watching other people. The field of behavioral psychology focuses largely on measurable behaviors that are learned rather than trying to understand internal states such as emotions and attitudes types of learning there are three main types of learning classical conditioning operant conditioning and observational learning