Exam 2: Learning and Motivation

John, a novice sky diver, is told by his close friends that given the level of training he has received he should be able to perform his first jump "without any problems." From a training and motivation perspective, what are John's friends trying to do?

a) List and briefly describe the four characteristics goals must have in order to be motivational.?b) An important characteristic of goals is the notion of "goal orientation." Identify two general types of goal orientations and provide a brief example of each.

Given that individuals have learning style preferences, better learning outcomes take place when only preferred learning styles are used in the learning process.

Observational learning requires four key elements: attention, retention, reproduction, and reinforcement. What type of activity is associated with reproduction?

When a behaviour has been learned it can be thought of as a skill.

There are two types of goal orientations, including a mastery or learning goal orientation and a performance goal orientation.

Kurt Kraiger and colleagues developed a classification scheme for learning outcomes that includes cognitive outcomes, skill-based outcomes, and affective outcomes.

You are a senior human resource manager with a Canadian organization. On your way back home from a business trip, you stumble across an article praising the effectiveness of informal learning. You decide your organization should facilitate a work environment that promotes informal learning. Which of the following is NOT likely to be an action you will take?

Workplace learning refers to the process of acquiring job-related knowledge and skills through formal training programs and informal social interactions among employees.

a) Define locus of control. Differentiate between internal and external locus of control, and explain the impact of locus of control on training motivation.?b) Postulate why those with an internal locus of control might have higher training motivation.

Which of the following best describes the conditioning theory concept known as generalization?

Which of the following characteristics are congruent with the notion of informal learning?

What conclusions would you draw from the adaptive character of thought theory (ACT theory)?

In the third and final stage of learning, performance is said to be independent of the level of attention paid by the trainee in performing the task.

Training motivation predicts learning and training outcomes and is influenced by environmental and individual factors.

Which psychologist's theories support the following statement: "Learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour in response to a particular stimulus or set of stimuli"?

Contrast the learning needs of children vs. the learning needs of adults in terms of personality, motivation, roles, openness and barriers to change, experience, and orientation to learning.?Now that you have contrasted the learning needs of children vs. adults, identify how an instructor could use those differences to enhance the learning experience of students.

Training motivation predicts training outcomes but NOT beyond the effects of cognitive ability.

You just found out you are going to lead a training class made up primarily of adult learners. You recall from a previous training and development class that significant differences exist in the design and delivery of training programs geared toward adults versus children. Which of the following statements about how you should approach the training is NOT congruent with adult learning theory?

According to goal-setting theory, goals can be motivational if they have some specific characteristic. Which of the following would NOT be considered one of those characteristics?