---
title: "SSPBC1: Major Approaches to Learning (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSPBC1
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSPBC1
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
language: en
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# SSPBC1: Major Approaches to Learning

Identify the characteristics of and major approaches to learning.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSPBC1.a**: Identify learning as a relatively permanent change in behavior based on experience.
- **SSPBC1.b**: Explain the behavioral approach to learning.
- **SSPBC1.c**: Compare and contrast the paradigms of classical and operant conditioning.
- **SSPBC1.d**: Describe changes in behavior using the social learning theory.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.