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Learning means acquiring knowledge or developing the ability to perform new behaviors. It is common to think of learning as something that takes place in school, but much of human learning occurs outside the classroom, and people continue to learn throughout their lives.
Even before they enter school, young children learn to walk, to talk, and to use their hands to manipulate toys, food, and other objects. They use all of their senses to learn about the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells in their environments. They learn how to interact with their parents, siblings, friends, and other people important to their world. When they enter school, children learn basic academic subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics. They also continue to learn a great deal outside the classroom. They learn which behaviors are likely to be rewarded and which are likely to be punished. They learn social skills for interacting with other children. After they finish school, people must learn to adapt to the many major changes that affect their lives, such as getting married, raising children, and finding and keeping a job.
Because learning continues throughout our lives and affects almost everything we do, the study of learning is important in many different fields. Teachers need to understand the best ways to educate children. Psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and other human-service workers need to understand how certain experiences change people’s behaviors. Employers, politicians, and advertisers make use of the principles of learning to influence the behavior of workers, voters, and consumers.
Learning is closely related to memory, which is the storage of information in the brain. Psychologists who study memory are interested in how the brain stores knowledge, where this storage takes place, and how the brain later retrieves knowledge when we need it. In contrast, psychologists who study learning are more interested in behavior and how behavior changes as a result of a person’s experiences.
There are many forms of learning, ranging from simple to complex. Simple forms of learning involve a single stimulus. A stimulus is anything perceptible to the senses, such as a sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste. In a form of learning known as classical conditioning, people learn to associate two stimuli that occur in sequence, such as lightning followed by thunder. In operant conditioning, people learn by forming an association between a behavior and its consequences (reward or punishment). People and animals can also learn by observation – that is, by watching others perform behaviors. More complex forms of learning in clued learning languages, concepts, and motor skills.
The word “retrieves” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. recovers
B. generates
C. creates
D. gains
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Đáp án A
Giải thích: retrieve (v) = hồi tưởng, khôi phục lại
Recover (v) = hồi phục, lấy lại, tìm lại được
Psychologists who study memory are interested in how the brain stores knowledge, where this storage takes place, and how the brain later retrieves knowledge when we need it.
Dịch nghĩa: Các nhà tâm lý học nghiên cứu trí nhớ có hứng thú với cách bộ não chứa kiến thức, nơi sự chứa đựng diễn ra và cách bộ não tìm lại kiến thức khi chúng ta cần nó.
B. generate (v) = tạo ra, sinh ra
C. create (v) = sáng tạo
D. gain (v) = thu được
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Tom said that if he had to do another homework tonight, he would not be able to attend the concert
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His health would be improved________
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________ to the skin, they eventually got to the station
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Internationally, 189 countries have signed _______ accord agreeing to create Biodiversity Action Plans to protect endangered and other threatened species
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The children forgot picking up the note from the office and now they are worried.
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I wanted to go a more ________ route across Montana.
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Several deserts are a quite vast and uninhabited ________
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Slippery as the roads were, they managed to complete the race
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Many tall and wide mountain ranges do not let much rain get ________ the desert.
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When old Mr. Barnaby died, several people________ their claim to the substantial legacy that he left
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The people of the province wanted to become a sovereign state
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Would you mind closing the window please?
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Carl ________ studied harder; he failed the test again.
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They decided to go for a picnic though it was very cold
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It's no good________ to him; he never answers letters.
