2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
THORNDIKES LAWS OF LEARNING - ANS • Readiness
• Exercise
• Effect
• Disuse
• Association
• Recency
• Primacy
• Intensity
Disuse - ANS Among adult learners, habits NOT reinforced are weakened through:
Determining the Learning Outcomes - ANS What is the First step an instructor takes to create
a lesson plan?
Adhere very closely to the source material that is being taught - ANS The best way for an
instructor to avoid bias in instructional materials is to:
Learning Objectives - ANS Which term describes the knowledge or skills that students should
have acquired by the conclusion of a lesson?
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,Levels of Learning - ANS This follows an ordered progression or hierarchy of instructional
outcomes in the cognitive domain
Psychomotor Learning Objective - ANS Action verbs are usually included to define the
activity in this learning objective
Affective - ANS Learning objectives are difficult to measure objectively in this domain
ID the topic that is to be researched - ANS What is the first step of research an instructor
would use to develop lesson plans and training courses
Expert opinion info - ANS A level 2 instructors' personal knowledge is an acceptable starting
point when looking for
Scrutinized all sources closely - ANS While credible info will be available to the level 2
instructor, instructors are encouraged to:
Citations - ANS This is used in research papers, books, articles, and electronic media to
indicate the source of quotes or other info that is not original to the writer
Development of a lesson outline - ANS After establishing learning objectives, what is the next
step in the lesson planning process?
Defining the purpose - ANS When including group discussions in a lesson plan, knowing what
students should understand after completing the discussion is referred to as
Ancillary components - ANS Supplementary materials such as handouts, study guides, or skill
sheets are referred to as:
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, Technology Tools - ANS level 2 instructors use these to enhance the lesson plan to illustrate a
process through the use of artwork, photography, or cutaway models
new lesson plans may appear to be effective on paper but don't meet expectations in practice -
ANS The only difference in teaching from a newly created lesson pan and teaching from a
previously prepared lesson plan is:
Assessing the results of instruction - ANS Admin, employers, curriculum developers, and
instructors can judge whether a course or curriculum accomplished its objectives by:
Readiness - ANS Which law of learning indicates that a person is emotionally, mentally, and
physically prepared to learn new knowledge or skills
Exercise - ANS Which learning principle assumes adults learn best when they can practive a
skill
Effect - ANS Which learning principle reinforces how the info is useful to the student
Disuse - ANS Training programs should force students to repeat skills at regular intervals
because habits not reinforced are weakened through
Association - ANS Which learning principle says that instructors should consider what
students know and then connect it to the material they need to learn
Recency - ANS The learning principle that states skills and info practiced or learned most
recently are also the best remembered is
Primacy - ANS Which learning principle assumes that the first of a series of learned acts will
be remembered bettrer than others
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