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Is learning the result of instinct or experience? Provide examples from your own life experience to support your viewpoint. Is there a difference between learning and performance? If so, what is it? If not, why? Please provide examples from your own life experience.

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Learning is carefully exemplified with a reference to validate.

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Learning is defined as any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice. The permanent part of learning which could confused with the idea of instinct refers to the fact that when people learn anything, some part of their brain is physical changed to record what they've learned. This is actually a process of memory, for without the ability to remember what happens, people cannot learn anything. Although there is no conclusive proof as of yet, but research suggests strongly that once people learn something, it is always present somewhere in member. For example as a child you may have touched a stove top ...

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