Science Behind Learning Learning happens to us every day of our lives, from the second we are born, or even before. Learning is described as the process by which life experience causes change in the behavior or thinking of an organism. There are several types of leaning, association, maturation and conditioning are just a few. Conditioning is one of the most common forms of learning. Classical conditioning is a form of learning in which animals or people make a connection between two stimuli that have occurred together such that one predicts the other. They have done studies on both humans and animals, dogs to be particular in this research. They were able to condition dogs to know they were going to receive food any time they heard a bell, or they also used circles to get the dogs to know they are receiving food. This type of learning is generalization. Generalization is the process by which stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus cause the same conditioned reaction....