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In general the conditioning becomes easier, the higher the species of the organism is.

He shut-up hungry cat in a big cage. An attractive piece of food was placed outside the cage. The cat looked at the piece and tried to get at it. It extended its paws through the bars of the cage but the piece was far away.

Learning is influenced by various conditions of life and school. Our attempts should be to create such conditions as are conductive to effective learning and which help students to make the most satisfactory adjustment to life. The following factors influence learning:

Yoakman and Simpson have enumerated nine general characteristic of learning which we discuss below:

In adolescence the individual is so transformed that he wears but inwardly he seethes with revolt and pent up anger which sometimes leads him to run away not only from school but even from the home a new and unrecognized look.

Social problems which have a root in the relationship between the adolescent and his parents arise because the two do not understand each other sympathetically. The parents believe in the efficacy of greater control and direction.

Adolescence is a period in which a number of social problems crop up. The social contacts of the person expand from infancy to maturity.

The term adolescence is derived from the Latin word Adolescence, which means to grow to maturity. It is a critical stage of development which lies between later childhood and maturity, emerging from childhood and merging into adulthood.

The English word adolescence is derivative of the Latin ‘adolescence’ which means to grow to maturity. This age begins from twelve and continues till the age of twenty. In the words of Jersild, “Adolescence is the period through which a growing person makes transition from childhood to maturity.”

Significance of Developmental Tasks are as follows:

The extent to which psychology has produced into the field of teaching and learning education is so impressive that only the term revolution can be applied to it with any accuracy.

Early childhood is considered to be “an ideal period for learning.” Watson thinks, ‘the scope and intensity of learning during this period exceeds that of any other period of development.”

The teachers and parents should not expect a child to achieve something suddenly. They should provide suitable environment for the child for his proper development.

1. Development is the product of heredity and environment.

The concept of social development lies in the concept of socialization. To understand that, we have to understand socialization at the time of his birth, a child is very selfish. He does not know about sharing his joys and toys with others.

Developmental psychology studies human development, the study starting not with the infant’s birth but before it, while it is in embryonic form within its mother’s womb. The child’s development within the womb is a very important phase of his entire development.