learning abilities

Skills for acquiring knowledge

Learning abilities are the cognitive capacities that enable someone to acquire, process, and retain new knowledge or skills.

The term appears most often in educational and psychological contexts, where it encompasses things like memory, attention, reasoning, and problem-solving: The test measures learning abilities in children.

A learning disability is a condition that impairs specific learning abilities while leaving general intelligence intact.

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retention · memory · grasping · quick · sharp · gifted · struggling · dyslexia · potential · capacity · absorbing · mastery · skill · study skills · understanding · bright · slow · talent

Opposites
cognitive capacity for acquiring knowledge

learning abilitieslearning disabilities

Neurological conditions affecting acquisition

learning difficulties · cognitive impairment · intellectual disability · cognitive deficits · mental retardation

ease of knowledge acquisition

learning abilitieslearning barriers

Impediments to acquiring knowledge

educational challenges

developmental/educational trajectory

learning abilitiescognitive decline

Worsening of thought abilities

arrested development · mental deterioration

Family

learning, abilities, learn, ability, inability, disability, learns, learned, learner

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