Learning Effects

question 96

Multiple Choice

Learning effects

• A) tend to be less significant when a technologically complex task is repeated.
• B) will be less significant in an assembly process involving 1,000 complex steps than in one of only 100 simple steps.
• C) typically disappear after a while, despite the complexity of the task.
• D) are more significant after two or three years of the introduction of a new process.

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Definitions:

Chemicals

Substances with distinct molecular compositions that are used in or produced by chemical processes.

Resource Partitioning

A mechanism that allows different species to coexist in the same ecosystem by utilizing different resources, thereby reducing competition.

Brood Parasitism

One egg-laying species benefits by having another raise its offspring.

Competitive Exclusion

A principle stating that two species competing for the same limiting resources cannot coexist at constant population values, if other ecological factors remain constant.