ABSTRACT
Until now, we have looked at things that do not change much (heuristics and biases) or change slowly after childhood (personality, mental abilities, motivations). In this chapter, we will learn more about the relatively quick kinds of change we all know as learning . Learning is defi ned in various ways by different authors and researchers. We will defi ne it as two general kinds of change: behavioral and cognitive. These refl ect a fundamental split in the research on learning, as we shall see. But, both kinds of leaning occur as a result of motivated interactions with our context and involve the integration of new information (Gluck & Myers, 2001; Schacter, Gilbert, & Wegner, 2009).
