CFI Oral Exam Questions and Answers
1. What is Learning?
Answer Learning can be defined as a change in Behavior as a result of experience
2. How many basic characteristics of learning are
there? PEMA
Answer There are 4 basic characteristics, they are
Purposeful
Result of an experience
Multifaceted
Active Process
3. What is "learning is Purposeful"?
Answer Each student is a unique individual whose past experience affects readiness to learn and
understanding the requirements involved.
4. What is "Learning a result of experience"?
Answer Learning is an individual process from an individual experience. Knowledge cannot be
poured into the student's head.
5. What is "Learning is Multifaceted"?
,Answer It may involve verbal, conceptual, perceptual, or emotional elements, and elements of problem-
solving all taking place at the same time.
6. What is "Learning is an active process?"
Answer For students to learn, they must react and respond.
7. What are the principles of
learning? REEPIR
Answer Readiness
Exercise
Ettect
Primacy
Intensity
Recency
8. What is the law of readiness?
Answer individuals learn best when they are ready to learn and they do not
learn well when they see no strong purpose or objective.need to have clear objective
9. What is the law of exercise?
Answer Those things most often repeated are best remembered
10. What is the law effect?
,Answer Learning is strengthened when accompanied with a pleasant or satisfying feeling but weakened with
something unpleasant
11. What is the law of primacy?
Answer The first impression (this si why we students must be taught right the first time). The state of
being first, creates an almost unshakable impression. Teach it right the first time.
12. What is the law of intensity?
Answer Exciting, teaches more than just the usual experience
13. What is the law of recency?
Answer The things most recently learned are best remembered.
14. What is the basis of all learning?
Answer All learning comes form perceptions that are directed to the brain from the 5 senses.
15. How do people
learn? PIM
Answer Perception, Insight,
Motivation
16. What is perception?
, Answer Initially all learning comes form he 5 senses
17. What is insight?
Answer The grouping of perceptions
18. What is motivation?
Answer promise of obtaining goals, a positive experience
19. What are the 4 basic levels of
learning? RUAC
Answer Rote
Understanding
Application
Correlation
20. What is Rote learning?
Answer Lowest level, The ability to repeat back something that was said without
understanding
21. What is understanding?
Answer understanding what has been taught
22. What is application?
Answer the ability to apply what has been leaned
1. What is Learning?
Answer Learning can be defined as a change in Behavior as a result of experience
2. How many basic characteristics of learning are
there? PEMA
Answer There are 4 basic characteristics, they are
Purposeful
Result of an experience
Multifaceted
Active Process
3. What is "learning is Purposeful"?
Answer Each student is a unique individual whose past experience affects readiness to learn and
understanding the requirements involved.
4. What is "Learning a result of experience"?
Answer Learning is an individual process from an individual experience. Knowledge cannot be
poured into the student's head.
5. What is "Learning is Multifaceted"?
,Answer It may involve verbal, conceptual, perceptual, or emotional elements, and elements of problem-
solving all taking place at the same time.
6. What is "Learning is an active process?"
Answer For students to learn, they must react and respond.
7. What are the principles of
learning? REEPIR
Answer Readiness
Exercise
Ettect
Primacy
Intensity
Recency
8. What is the law of readiness?
Answer individuals learn best when they are ready to learn and they do not
learn well when they see no strong purpose or objective.need to have clear objective
9. What is the law of exercise?
Answer Those things most often repeated are best remembered
10. What is the law effect?
,Answer Learning is strengthened when accompanied with a pleasant or satisfying feeling but weakened with
something unpleasant
11. What is the law of primacy?
Answer The first impression (this si why we students must be taught right the first time). The state of
being first, creates an almost unshakable impression. Teach it right the first time.
12. What is the law of intensity?
Answer Exciting, teaches more than just the usual experience
13. What is the law of recency?
Answer The things most recently learned are best remembered.
14. What is the basis of all learning?
Answer All learning comes form perceptions that are directed to the brain from the 5 senses.
15. How do people
learn? PIM
Answer Perception, Insight,
Motivation
16. What is perception?
, Answer Initially all learning comes form he 5 senses
17. What is insight?
Answer The grouping of perceptions
18. What is motivation?
Answer promise of obtaining goals, a positive experience
19. What are the 4 basic levels of
learning? RUAC
Answer Rote
Understanding
Application
Correlation
20. What is Rote learning?
Answer Lowest level, The ability to repeat back something that was said without
understanding
21. What is understanding?
Answer understanding what has been taught
22. What is application?
Answer the ability to apply what has been leaned
