Question

Learning not to touch a hot stove after having been burned by it is an example of learning through __________.

Answer 1

Learning not to touch a hot stove after having been burned by it is an example of experience learning. In this case, someone has been burned before after touching a hot stove, because of that, the remember and learn not to touch a hot stove again because they could be burned. Their first experience of touching the hot stove reminds them that would happen if they were to do that again.

Answer 2

Learning through punishment

Learning through punishment refers to the phenomenon where an unpleasant response (or punishment) following a behavior or action, makes that behavior or action less likely to occur in the future. In this case, when you get burnt (response) by touching a hot stove (behavior/ action), you learn that touching a hot stove equates pain (an unpleasant response). Therefore, you learn not to touch a hot stove again in the future.