User:Celine juliet/7 factors affecting learning

Introduction
The focus of our study here is to know the different factors that help students/learner to perform better and the various factors that don’t help to perform well. It also speaks of the various reasons for high or low transfer in learning process. Learning is acquired by habits, knowledge and attitude. The individual adapt himself to a situation or the situation demands him/her to change the behavior according to the aim and purpose one learns to differentiate and integrate.

Factor Affecting learning

 * Intellectual factor: Intelligent is a behavior that results in a successful functioning of adaptability to new problem and conditions of life. It is more related to the performance in school. Performing well in one subject and not well in another subject indicates that there is something lacking in an individual. There are different types of intellectual factors such as activity based intelligence, motor skill, mental capacity- memorize, simple association which also includes-comprehension, invention, direction and criticism.


 * Learning factor: Lack of previous knowledge in any specific field. As learning is a systematic process, if not learned the basic of an subject it will surely lead to sever impediment in learning in that particular subject. Missing out some knowledge would act as a block for the further learning or even if a learner is introduced faultily it leads to a disability or inefficiency for the further learning
 * Physical factor: Good health plays a very important role in learning. Learning happens by seeing, by hearing, by touching and doing. Unless the sensory organs are well developed and functions normally it would seriously impediment the learning. The regulated secretion of glands such as pituitary and thyroid glands are very essential for the functioning of mind like concentration and processing of what is learned.
 * Mental factor: Mental factors much contributes to learning. Attitudes such as likeness, willingness, open mind, happiness help in learning.


 * Emotional and social factor: It is the relationship of a learner with a situation, person and place. The classroom situation, presence of an object or even a co-student could be an emotional threat which affects the inner self stability causing social and emotional imbalance.
 * Teacher’s personality factor: Personality includes aspects such as appearance, mental ability, emotional balance, attitude, and effective presence. Interaction of a teacher’s personality influences the learning. Depending of the teacher’s personality learning would be positive or negative.
 * Environmental factor: The physical properties of the surroundings such as structure of the building, equipments like textbooks, classroom and other instructional material influence the learning.

Conclusion
There are various factors that influence learning. So first of all the learner has to identify what hinders him/her from learning and discuses about it with someone who can help to solve the problem. If the learner has a problem with the teacher or subject he should be encouraged to approach the teacher. Thus in some way learning is ensured. However balanced physical emotional and mental factor plays an important along with interest, motivation and aptitude of a person also plays an important role in learning.