Intentional Learning Vs Incidental Learning

Incidental learning is the learning of one stimulus feature while concentrating on another stimulus feature too. A little more specific connotation of incidental learning is that it involves the learning of formal aspects through a center of attention on semantic aspects. Incidental learning can occur in many modes inclusive of observations, communications with colleagues about tasks or projects, experiencing mistakes, assumptions and adapting to new situations. A reactive component of incidental learning occurs in the middle of a task completion action when there is little time to think. Incidental learning has also been portrayed as implicit when knowledge is acquired independent of conscious attempts to learn [1]. A little broader meaning of incidental learning is taken in a pessimistic way as it is the learning without the intent to learn.