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Behavioral Learning in Healthcare Settings Name of the Student Professor’s Name Behavioral Learning in Healthcare Settings Learning is defined as the permanent change in mental processing, cognitive functioning and behavioral responses that result from individual experiences. The process of learning is a lifelong event, which leads to the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. Learning helps individuals to adapt to the changes in their immediate or distant environment. Such adaptation alters the thoughts, feelings, attitudes and deliverables of an individual. Learning is an essential attribute for all healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals should respond and adapt to different changes in their professional settings. Such behaviors are highly mandated for ensuring positive health outcome in patients. Different types of learning are evident in organizational settings (Halpern, 2001). Behavioral learning is a type of learning, which develops as a product of stimulus applied and the concerted response towards such stimuli. This model is referred as stimulus-response model (S-R) model. S-R model is essential for understanding the professional needs of healthcare professionals and also the clinical needs of a healthcare consumer. Behavioral learning is based on Pavlovian and operant conditioning. Pavlovian conditioning implicates that type of stimulus influences the response of an individual. In this model, a neutral stimulus is often paired with an unconditional stimulus or unconditional response (UCS or UCR). However, after few such pairings, the neutral stimulus could elicit the same UCR (without being coupled to UCS). Learning is ensured
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