Basic Principles of
learning
The principles of learning
provide additional insight into
what makes people learn
most effectively.
The majority of these
principles are widely applied
in many fields.
Edward Thorndike developed the first three
“Laws of learning”. Readiness, exercise and
effect. Since Thorndike set down his basic three
laws in the early part of the twentieth century, the
additional principles have been added primacy,
recency, intensity, freedom and requirement
1. Readiness
Implies a degree of willingness and
eagerness of an individual to
learn something new.
2. Exercise
Things that are most often
repeated are best remembered.
3. Effect
Based on the emotional reaction
and motivation
4. Primacy
Things learned first create a strong
impression in the mind that is
difficult to erase.
5. Recency
Things most recently learned are
best remembered
6. Intensity
implies that a student will learn
more from the real thing than from
substitute.
7.Freedom
states that things freely learned are best learned.
Since learning is an active process.
8. Requirement
It may help us to learn or gain
something, a starting point or
root is needed.