What Is Brain Drain

question 101

Multiple Choice

What is brain drain?

• A) the common name given to an illness caused by exposure to toxic residues from petroleum refining that results in short-term memory loss
• B) This occurs when highly centralized governments actively recruit the best and the brightest individuals for jobs in the national capital, leaving few behind in the villages.
• C) This occurs when bright young people migrate to foreign lands in search of better jobs.
• D) This is a rock group from the United Arab Emirates.
• E) The common name given to the practice of providing scholarships to students in North Africa/Southwest Asia, which enables them to study abroad and gain a better education than that available in their home region. These scholars later return to share their new-found knowledge with their own students.

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Definitions:

Stimuli

External or internal elements that elicit responses from an organism or system.

S-R Association

The connection between a stimulus and the response it triggers, fundamental to behaviorist theories of learning and conditioning.

Learning Process

The acquisition of knowledge, skills, behaviors, or preferences, often as a result of study, experience, or teaching, which involves changes in the brain.

Cathexis

The idea that the ability of deprivation states to motivate behavior transfers to the stimuli present during the deprivation state.