Implicit learning

Under inzidentellem learning refers to learning in action learning without intention (according to foreign words Duden means incidentally also random).

At best, the term explained by an example of the daily work: While the intended ( intentional ) search for very specific information (eg, via a search engine ) must usually also ( relatively large ) matching information are processed cognitively less, but: exactly this information processing - who just do not intentionally (not intentionally ) done - triggers a learning process: it is (not intentionally) learned incidental. Very often in our daily lives, we learn not deliberately, but " accidentally ". In the English literature, the term implicit learning will be used.

Historical

The origins of incidental learning can be found in John Dewey, of it as part of his experiments at the Laboratory School in Chicago as: has called " learning as a side income ." Today, this form of learning is applied in the context of Civic Education.

Learning efficiency

Hyde and Jenkins (1973 ) found in an experiment that it ultimately does not matter for memory performance, whether the learner ( to be without the knowledge tested) or intentional ( with the knowledge that what they have learned is important) learn incidental, but that the type of processing is crucial. " It typically indicates a better memory, if it is intended learning because they are more likely to perform activities that are better suited for a good memory performance " ( Anderson, 2003, p.198 ).