UNDERSTANDING LEARNING

TEACHER ELIGIBILITY TEST SEPTEMBER 2013 
PAPER II SYLLABUS

UNDERSTANDING LEARNING 
- Concept, Nature of Learning – input – process – outcome 
- Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental 
- Approaches to Learning and their applicability–Behaviourism (Skinner, Pavlov, 
Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt(Kohler, Koffka) and 
Observational (Bandura) 
- Dimensions of Learning – Cognitive, Affective and Performance 
- Motivation and Sustenance –its role in learning. 
- Memory & Forgetting 
- Transfer of Learning