Chapter 2: Principles of Learning

The term andragogy refers to the art of teaching adults.

True

Which part of student diversity may cause one group of students to prefer traditional instruction rather than web-based instruction?

Age

Which motivation technique lets the student know why the knowledge or skills they are learning are important?

providing relevancy

Instructors should plan a variety of teaching methods in their lessons because it:

reaches individual learning styles

Which domain of learning takes the most time for the results to become observable?

Affective

Which motivation technique requires the instructor to use different teaching strategies that match the students learning styles?

Including instructional variety

Which motivation technique requires the instructor to provide external motivations such as rewards, recognition, and certificates that cause students to feel successful?

Incorporating motivators

Which of the following provides a set of assumptions for effectively teaching adults?

Knowles' Assumptions of Adult Learners

Which of the following statements about learning styles is MOST accurate?

Learning styles can be recognized by instructors

Which of the following is an example of a concrete strategy?

Managing items and working with facts instead of imagining outcomes

Adult students' internal desire to gain knowledge or skill they believe will help them to be successful is an example of:

motivation

Adult students believing in their abilities to be successful is an example of:

self-confidence

Which domain of learning involves how individuals deal with issues emotionally?

Affective

Which domain of learning is the foundation for the other two domains?

Cognitive

Which of the following domains of learning is usually presented in a lecture or discussion form?

Cognitive

For which strategy do students prefer seeing true-to-life visuals and demonstrations?

Concrete

Which motivation technique requires the instructor to share ideas and receive positive comments or participate in reasonable debates?

Demonstrating enthusiasm

For which law of learning to adult students need the satisfaction of learning a new skill?

Effect

According to the cone of learning, people will remember a majority of what they read.

False

Life experiences are so varied that they have little effect on how students learn.

False

Skills and information practiced or learned most recently is known as primacy.

False

The affective learning domain is the foundation of the other learning domains.

False

Which part of student diversity may affect students' perception of the instructor and can be disruptive to effective instruction?

Gender Bias

Which of the following is an example of a sequential strategy?

Orderly thinking process that has both a beginning and end

Which domain of learning is referred to as hand-on training?

Psychomotor

Which of the following is an example of an abstract strategy?

Recognizing common qualities in similar but different experiences

Which of the following is a sensory-stimulus that takes in the most information?

Seeing

Which of the following is an example of a global strategy?

Seeing the who picture and forming relationships between concepts

Which of the following states that there is a lifelong reliance on the five senses as the primary tool set for learning?

Sensory-Stimulus Theory

For which strategy do students prefer to use a step-by-step process?

Sequential

Which of the following is the BEST way for an instructor to prepare for cultural diversity in the classroom?

Take advantage of opportunities to attend cultural diversity training

Which of the following includes readiness, exercise, effect, disuse, and association?

Thorndike's Laws of Learning

A learning style refers to the way an individual gathers or processes information.

True

Gender issues during instruction may have a negative effect on an organization as a whole.

True

People can only change their behavior or base of knowledge by engaging the five senses.

True

An adult student possessing a variety of knowledge gained through work, leisure, and family responsibilities is known as:

life experience