The ability to learn a new computer software program is to be______as knowledge of state capitals is to______.

Related Mcqs:

1. A test of the capacity to learn a particular skill and to learn within a specific area of knowledge is called a/an ____________________?

   A. aptitude test
   B. achievement test
   C. projective test
   D. acquisition test

2. For children with ADHD, the ability to learn is severely because they:

   A. are mildly retarded
   B. act on impulse and cannot concentrate
   C. must take stimulants which shorten attention span
   D. are given sedatives which make them listless

3. A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?

   A. retroactive inhibition
   B. anterograde amnesia
   C. proactive inhibition
   D. retrograde amnesia

4. An ability to learn new information and form new long-term memories is called ________________?

   A. retroactive amnesia
   B. proactive amnesia
   C. anterograde amnesia
   D. implicit amnesia

5. According to Erikson, trust is to______as identity is to______.

   A. infancy; childhood
   B. infancy; adolescence
   C. adulthood; childhood
   D. childhood; adolescence

6. Discrimination relates to_____while prejudice relates to______.

   A. cognition; behavior
   B. affect; cognition
   C. affect; behavior
   D. behavior; cognition

7. A child who knows how to tie shoelaces would probably find it relatively easy to learn how to tie a bow. Piaget would call this thinking process:

   A. object permanence
   B. operationalization
   C. maturation
   D. assimilation

8. Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
   1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
   2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
   3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
   4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 3 & 4
   D. 1 & 3

9. An individual can only easily learn if:

   A. He is ready to learn
   B. He has the desire to learn
   C. He makes efforts to learn consciously
   D. All of the above

10. Who are becoming increasingly alert to the results of psychological studies that deal with individual patterns of growth, maturational readiness to learn, and individual differences in rate and limit of learning?

    A. Planers
    B. Researchers
    C. Educators
    D. Group leaders