Le@RNNiNG @PPLy To BuSiNeSS PSyCHoLoGy!!!

It is fantastic to read about what I want to study.

Someof the topics I am going to learn,Isaw at University and I really enjoy.

The modules wich I will see in my Masters are:
*Psychology for Business Success

*Organisational Learning

*Innovation and Creativity

*Selection and Development for Business Success

*Organisational Culture and Change

*Decision Making, Leadership and Motivation

*Research Methods and Consultancy Skills

*Business Psychology Project

It was amzing to find out that two different modules are going to apply a psychological teory in Human Resources. This was an excelent example to prove myself how much I wouldlike to study this Masters.

book> BUSINESS PYCHOLOGY AND ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

Eugene Mckenna (2006)

Chapter 7.

Learning...

It is generally accepted that the learning process involves the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and values, as well as emotional responses and motor skills, thus learning can takes places through the process of socialisation in a particular culture. According to this definition learning involves a relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a result of previous practice and experience (Atkinson, et al. 1996) and not due to others causes such as maturation, physical damage, from fatigue or the use of drugs.

The discussion of learning subdivides into classical conditioning, operant conditioning and cognitive learning.

The first of those is traditionally associated with the name of Pavlov, the psychologist who originally experimented with it, and it is defined as an association of one event with another that results in a pattern of behaviour. In his experiments, the salivation of the dog responded not only to the food it self, but on the long run to any stimulus that had been regularly associated with such food (e g. The sound of the keeper’s footsteps), this was called a reflex action.

Conversely, in the case of the operative conditioning the learner must make a response before their behaviour is rewarded, therefore, the main difference between both is the key roll played bye the learner. According to Skinner, factors such as attention, praise, approval, success and money are mayor reinforces with humans, because for a reinforce to work it must be perceived by the recipient as being useful and relevant.