Learning is about knowledge acquisition. It is the processing of acquiring information - picking it up and storing it mentally. Learning and memory are different sides of the same coin: If you don’t acquire and store information, there’s nothing later to retrieve; and if you can’t retain and later retrieve it, it may as well not exist it.
There are two different types of learning associated with the kind of information:
- Declarative information: Factual things like vocabulary words, addresses, concepts and theories.
- Procedural information: This includes how to apply skills or perform operations. It is the “how” knowledge, for example how to negotiate, how to debate, or how to solve an equation.