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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. The psychology of learning focuses on a range of topics related to how people learn and interact with their environments one of the first thinkers to study how learning influences behavior was psychologist john b watson who suggested that all behaviors are a result of the learning process. Instincts and reflexes are innate behaviors they occur naturally and do not involve learning in contrast learning is a change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience there are three main types of learning classical conditioning operant conditioning and observational learning. Educational psychologists and pedagogues have identified several principles of learning also referred to as laws of learning which seem generally applicable to the learning process these principles have been discovered tested and used in practical situations they provide additional insight into what makes people learn most effectively