Learning As A Function of Difficulty Values of the Learning Material: Learning To Be

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CHAPTER1, INTRODUCTION:
Research and development in Educational psychology now-a-days holds much promise for contributing directly to the improvement of educational practice. During the last two decades a lot of research in the educational field has been done and many developments have taken place both in the theory and practice of learning. As a result of this research work, it has been observed that conditions exercising negative influence on education at the different levels of instruction exist. Awareness of these facts is important to put educational practices and applications of educational approach in proper perspective.
In the more recent times, psychological studies about learning problems and conditions in school settings. In this connection learning abilities that may be improved through education are being rationally and purposefully identified. Efforts are made to understand, precisely, the nature, scope and objectives of learning matters and suitable procedures are adopted, accordingly, to reduce the possibilities of the recurrence of these negative influences, to ensure maximum learning achievement of the students and to develop more and more creative abilities in them.
From a psychological point of view, it would be expected that the child s experience is most important to his later behavior. It is in the period of childhood that progress is made from an organism, with a very limited repertoire of motor and verbal behavior under poor environmental control to an organism that has extremely complicated verbal and motor behavior under complex stimulus control including subtle social control.
Man, being a rational animal and being possessed of the power of reasoning, is amenable to undergo many desirable changes in respect of his behavior through the process of learning. The process of learning begins from the birth of a child and continues throughout his life when the child is born, his mind is just like a clean slate. His learning

Dr. Najmah Peerzada was born in Srinagar J&K, Kashmir. She took her B.A. (1984), M.A. (1986), M.Phil (1989) and Ph.D (2001) in Education from University of Kashmir. She is with the department of Education for last 25 years and is now working as Sr. Assistant Professor in Faculty of Education, University of Kashmir. She has so far published 18 research papers in various reputed education, psychology, social science journals at national and international level.