Training Tools
Laws of Learning
Using Training Methods
Curriculum Design
Potpourri
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This technique is ideal for problem solving, drawing out different perspectives on issues, and encouraging the development of mutual understanding.

What is structured dialogue?

100

This law of learning says that trainees learn when new facts, ideas, concepts, or behaviors are related to or with something they already know.

What is the law of association?

100

Asking questions, using personal examples, and addressing trainees by name are examples of this communication phenomenon.

What is verbal immediacy?

100

Effective learning objectives are specific, observable, obtainable, and ________________.

What is measurable?

100

These are the four elements of a SWOT analysis.

What are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?

200

This training tool is especially good for illustrating group dynamics.

What is the fishbowl?

200

In this approach to training, the trainee's learning style is both accommodated and challenged.

What is style-flexing?

200

This level of Bloom's taxonomy is the type of cognitive reasoning that involves breaking ideas down into their constituent parts.

What is analysis?

200

This is the domain of learning that refers to the acquisition or cultivation of particular attitudes.

What is affective?

200

This approach to consulting is the one that has the greatest involvement of the consultant in analyzing the organization's needs.

What is the process approach?

300

This training tool is especially comfortable for introverts.

What are handouts?

300

This is the learning style (according to Kolb) that prefers learning by doing and working in the field with others.

What is accommodating?

300

When debriefing an experiential activity such as a simulation, it's a good idea to ask some version of these three questions (in order)?

What is "what, so what, and now what"?

300

This is the process of getting the trainees' attention and motivating them to learn.

What is set induction?

300

These are two advantages of purchasing commercial training materials rather than developing your own.

What are convenience, established effectiveness, and no need to worry about copyright infringement?

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