Permanent changes in behaviour with practice is called

Concept

Learning, in educational psychology, is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour (or behavioural potential) that results from experience or practice. This is what distinguishes it from short-term changes caused by fatigue, illness, or momentary mood, which fade once the temporary cause passes.

Application

The stem describes exactly this defining feature: a lasting change in behaviour brought about through practice. That is the standard textbook definition of Learning.

Contrast

• Thinking names the cognitive process of manipulating ideas and mental representations, such as reasoning or problem-solving in the mind; it is not a lasting behavioural change from practice.

• Doing names the performance of an action at a given moment; it is the behaviour itself, not the durable change produced by repeating it.

• Imagine names the act of forming mental images or picturing a scenario that is not present to the senses; it does not describe permanence of behavioural change from practice.

Hence, permanent changes in behaviour with practice are best described as Learning.