Learning is a beautiful process that starts from the birth of a child on a baby and continuous till the death, it brings about a change and modification in the individuals behaviour, attitude and personality.
They are different ways to learn as learning is a purposive action it occurs only when the learner is ready and want to learn.
There are four types of learning one is learning by trial and error second one is observational learning or learning by imitation third is inside learning and 4th one is learning by conditioning.
Learning by trial and error
When we talk about learning through trial and error thorndike is famous for this experiment. He conducted the experiments on cat and he closed hungry cat in a box of puzzle and place the piece of meat outside as an incentive or reward when cat comes out she will get the meat. It was difficult for CAT to open the gate or door but through multiple trials the cat learn the way to open the door and she came out and eat the meet and this is the taken as the method of trial and error. Other words trial and error is a method in which unsuccessful activities are left or vanished and only the successful activities are continued or performed.
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