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Being able to meet the challenges of TRAINABILITY TESTS means being able to learn quickly, easily and well. It also means being able to use your knowledge - particularly to solve problems.

HUMAN LEARNING IS AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL PROCESS

SOME FACTS ABOUT YOUR LEARNING ORGAN:

YOUR BRAIN

1 x 10" = 100 000 000 000 brain cells = 'one hundred billion brain cells'

Do not abuse your brain: learning is an electro-chemical process and alcohol and dagga are chemicals which scramble your brain.

STAY SHARP!

CYBERNETICS
AND
TRAINABILITY TESTS

Computers can be ELECTRONICALLY programmed to:

	recognise patterns;
	react to stimuli;
	make comparisons;
	follow logical procedures;
	play complex games - like chess;
	run 24-hour process-control factories like SASOL.

'The general idea is that each brain cell leads to TWO possible outputs and that learning consists in closing one of these'.

Prof J Young -
Professor of Anatomy: London

Computer programming and human learning at the most basic level are:
BIPOLAR processes

and the same laws of logic can be applied to both.

Who discovered this?
The credit belongs to two men:

GEORGE BOOLE and CLAUDE SHANNON

GEORGE BOOLE (1815 - 1864) was a self-taught mathematician who developed a two-state (also called 'binary' or 'bipolar') system of logical analysis. He developed BOOLEAN ALGEBRA, a special type of two-state algebra. Boole's major work was published in 1854 - long before the computer era. It was called

'AN INVESTIGATION OF THE LAWS OF THOUGHT ON WHICH ARE FOUNDED THE MATHEMATICAL THEORIES OF LOGIC AND PROBABILITIES'

CLAUDE SHANNON applied Boolean logical analysis to switching circuits. His 10-page masters thesis written for his degree at M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) came at a time (circa 1940) when control of telephone switching circuits was presenting problems. New York at that time had as many telephones as the rest of the world combined.

Claude Shannon's development of logic gate theory is today commonly taught at technical colleges and technikons as an introduction to cybernetics and technical computer courses.

TRAINABILITY is the application of cybernetics to testing.

TRAINABILITY worksheets in the STARTER-PACK develop your logical brain processes so that you can tackle TRAINABILITY and other selection tests.

1. INPUT

Eyes and ears pick up INSTRUCTIONS and TEST DATA.

2. PROCESSING

The binary processes inside our brains structure the test data.

PROCESSING INCLUDES:

	Memory retention and memory recall
	Structuring of sets
	Generalisation/Discrimination
	Ranking
	Arranging and rearranging data
	Scheduling and rescheduling instructions
	Automatization
	Classification of new objects
	Logical AND/OR NAND/NOR
	Logical EX-OR EX-NOR
	Transfer of learning and problem solving
	Reversal

3. OUTPUT

The timed output response indicates how well the candidate has followed LOGICAL PROCEDURES.

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