Definition of Learning ability

1. Noun. Mental ability. "He's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

Exact synonyms: Brain, Brainpower, Mental Capacity, Mentality, Wit
Generic synonyms: Intelligence
Derivative terms: Brainy, Mental, Mental

Lexicographical Neighbors of Learning Ability

learned society
learned the hard way
learned treatise
learned treatises
learnedly
learnedness
learnednesses
learner
learner's dictionary
learner's permit
learners
learnfare
learnin'
learning
learning-disabled
learning ability (current term)
learning content management system
learning curve
learning curves
learning diffculty
learning difficulties
learning disabilities
learning disability
learning disorder
learning disorders
learning objective
learning objectives
learning season
learning seasons
learning set

Literary usage of Learning ability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology by John Broadus Watson (1914)
"Comparative learning ability of different animals. IV. The rise of habits when incentives are controlled.—Habits formed without the use of punishment. ..."

2. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"learning ability. § 66. Ability to Profit by Experience. § 67. Language Ability. §. Arithmetical Ability. § 69. Mental Representation and Analysis. § 70. ..."

3. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1915)
"The deaf boy is equal in learning ability to the deaf girl, differing in this respect from the hearing boy who falls below the hearing girl. "III. ..."

4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"While all the Binet tests are not based equally or entirely on learning ability, so that there may be other factors to consider, it does not seem that we ..."

5. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"... He was a lawyer of great learning, ability and authority; and he treats it as a claim of ... learning ability ..."

6. Recitation as a Factor in Memorizing by Arthur Irving Gates (1922)
"TESTS OF learning ability (a) THE MAZE TEST IN the maze test, the mice were first given an initial learning test of seventeen trials. ..."

7. Mental and Educational Measurements of the Deaf by Jeannette Chase Reamer (1921)
"... three years behind the hearing child in learning ability, as tested by the rapidity and accuracy of forming associations between numbers \ and forms; ..."

8. The Study of the Behavior of an Individual Child: Syllabus and Bibliography by John T. McManis (1916)
"Ultimately, what the person can do must be the criterion of his learning ability. We should be able, however, to find out definitely his best capacity under ..."

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