ABSTRACT
The most basic understanding of how learning takes place, as I see it, is that all learning contains two very different processes, both of which must be active before we can learn anything. For the most part they will also be simultaneous and thus will not be experienced as two separate processes, but they can also take place completely or partially at different times (see section 5.5). The one process is the interaction between the individual and his or her environment which takes place during all our waking hours and which we can be more or less aware of – by which awareness or ‘directedness’ becomes an important element of significance for learning. The second is the psychological processing and acquisition taking place in the individual of the impulses and influences that interaction implies. Acquisition typically has the character of a linkage between the new impulses and influences and the results of relevant earlier learning – by which the result obtains its individual mark.
