Study habits of secondary school students in Rajouri District

The term Habit has been defined in different ways. Some have called it is a man a creature of habits, others have said, Habit is a second nature. The duke of Wellington said, “it is a ten times nature”. William James defined habits as “the tendency of an organism to behave in the same way as it has behaved before. According to WoodWorth, “habit is a well learned performance”. Titcthner defines habit as the tendency of a thing to be or to do now what it was or did on some previous occasions”. In the light of above definitions habit can best be defined as acquired automatic, mechanical and co native disposition i.e. tendency to behave in a practical way.