Learning Theories
Learning Outcomes
Skills
Learning Transfer
100

Emphasizes that people learn by observing people

What is Social Learning Theory 

100

Excute a physical action with precision and timing

What is Motor Skills 

100

Training objective that is linked to learning specific skills identical to on the job

  What is Closed Skills

100

Trainees ability to apply what has been learned to on-the-job work problems & situations that are similar 


What is Generalization 

200

Assumes that behavior results from a persons goals and intentions


What is Goal Setting Theory

200

Choice of personal course of action

What is Attitudes 

200

Trainees ability to to apply learning to work environment that is not identical to the to the training environment 


 What is Far Transfer

200

A relatively permanent change in human capabilities

What is Learning

300

Emphasizes that people are motivated to perform or avoid certain behaviors due to past outcomes 


What is Reinforcement Theory

300

State, tell or describe previously stored information

What is Verbal Information 

300

Linked to more general learning principles

 What is Open Skills

300

Process of trainees continuing to use what they have learned over time

What is Maintenance 

400

Based on the value that a person places on certain outcomes


What is Need Theory

400

Apply generalizable concepts & rules to solve problems & generate novel products

What is Intellectual Skills 

400

Refers to the extent that the training environment is similar to the work environment 


 What is Fidelity

400

Developing new training and development courses or lessons for employees


What is Training Design

500

A persons behavior is based on three factors: expectancy, instrumentality and valence

What is Expectancy Theory

500

Manage one's own thinking and learning process 


What is Cognitive Strategies

500

Trainees ability to apply learned capabilities exactly to the work situation

 What is Near Transfer

500

Trainees effectively and continually applying what they have learned in training and applying it to their jobs

What is Transfer of Training

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