Behaviorism
Learning Theorists
Constructivism
@Wildcard?
Cognitivism
100
This theory is founded on the assumption that instead of the operations of the mind, behavior should be examined because humans and animals can be conditioned.
What is Behaviorism?
100
The scientist whose work resulted in the Operant Conditioning Theory.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
100
The learning theory based on the assumption that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge (experience) in order to discover principles for themselves is known as?
What is Constructivism?
100
What theory is based around unstructured learning activities?
What is Discovery Learning?
100
Howard Gardner argued that there is a wide range of cognitive abilities, and that a broader definition more accurately reflected the differing ways in which humans think and learn. What was he discussing?
What is Multiple Intelligence's?
200
A rat is placed in a radial maze with eight arms. The rat runs down one arm and eats the food it finds there. B.F. Skinner would have predicted that the rat would then run down the same arm again. This is because of?
What is Operant conditioning?
200
The concept based on the assumption that all genuine education comes through experience. Name the individual who purports this notion.
Who is John Dewey?
200
Constructivist theories move away from the notion that the teacher cannot be in charge of the students’ learning. This approach is refereed to as?
What is student or child centered learning?
200
Which views of how learning should take place contrasts with Direct Instruction??
What is Inquiry Based Learning?
200
What is it called when a child confronts new and unfamiliar features of their environment that do not fit with their current views of the world?
What is disequilibrium?
300
Pairs an unconditioned stimulus (US) with conditioned stimulus (CS) so that the typical unconditioned response (UR) eventually becomes a conditioned response
What is Classical Conditioning Theory?
300
Known for influencing the American school system, based on his work on perception, learning, and other cognitive abilities?
Who is Jerome Bruner?
300
The Constructivist framework of the learning activities motivates students to be creative and to use which skills.
What is problem solving?
300
The intelligence that suggests that the individual has the capacity for person-to-person communications and relationships is called?
What is Interpersonal Intelligence?
300
Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive theory states that students learned a great deal through?
What is Observation or Vicarious Learning
400
In Operant conditioning, wheter in anamals or humans, what process is modified by consequences, such as reward or punishment?
What is behavior?
400
Sensorimotor stage, Preoperational stage, Concrete operational stage and Formal operations stage are stages described by which theorist?
Who is Jean Piaget?
400
Constructivism is a philosophical viewpoint about the nature of what?
What is (nature of) knowing, knowledge or learning?
400
Robert Gagne felt that different instructional conditions were most likely to bring about different types of learning. He was best known for describing this in steps called?
What is Events of Instruction
400
Cognitive Learning Theory implies that the different processes concerning learning can be explained by analyzing which processes first?
What is mental (processes) or how the brain works?
500
What specimen and equipment did Pavlov use in his famous experiment?
What are dog, food, bell?
500
This theorist's original research intentions was to study digestion and it was altered when he noticed that dogs would salivate at the sight of experimenter without food present.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
500
Lee Vygotsky, Bruner and others emplyed variety of instructional techniques to assist or move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process. This type of support is known as?
What is scaffolding?
500
According to the information-processing model, attention mechanisms for bringing information in, actively manipulating this information until it becomes a long-term passive holding of this information to be used in the future is referring to what?
What is memory?
500
According to Jean Piaget, how many stages of cognitive development do children progress?
What is 4?
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