Learning Theory
A person can only process a small amount of new information at once.
What is cognitive load theory?
What is Bronfenbrenners Theory?
When two or more sensations occur together often enough, they will be come associated (stimulus and response). Also known as Learning by Association.
What is Contiguity?
What is Vygotsky?
Meeting normative standards to show competence.
What are performance approach goals?
Emphasizes learning through lectures, demonstration, corrective feedback. I do we do you do.
What is Direct Instruction?
1. Sequence is predictable. Milestones lead to more advanced behaviors
2. Children Develop at different rates
3. Development is marked by growth spurts and plateaus, sometimes you go backwards to go forwards.
4. Heredity and Environment interact in their effects on development.
What are 4 Principles of child development?
Learning of involuntary emotional / physiological responses to stimuli.
What is Classical Conditioning?
The father of classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Avoiding incompetence by meeting normative standards.
What are performance avoidance goals?
The true nature of knowledge is unknowable. Knowledge is the subjective construction of the individual.
What is Radical Constructivism?
Development stage where object permanence is learning, schemes are based largely on behavior and perceptions, trial and error is key.
What is Sensorimoter Development?
Associative learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.
What is Operant Conditioning?
His theory of cognitive development suggested that children move through 4 distinct stages of development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Desires to finish work as quickly as possible with as little effort as possible.
What are work avoidance goals?
What is social constructivism?
Characterized by a distinction between own and other's perspectives, classification of objects into 2 or more categories simultaneously, and mastery of the conservation principle.
What is the Concrete Operations Stage of Development?
First do what I want you to do, then do what you want to do. Example: Ask children to eat their dinner (low probability behavior) before eating dessert (high probability behavior).
What is Premack Principle?
His taxonomy is a classification of the different objectives and skills that educators set for their students.
Who is Benjamin Bloom
Desires to gain competence in subject being learned.
What are Learning or Mastery Goals?
Knowledge is external and objective.
Cognitive Constructivism
Stage of Development characterized by ability to apply logic to the abstract, proportional understanding, multiple hypothesis, spearmint and control of variables, and idealism.
What is the Formal Operations Stage of Development?
Positive and negative reinforcement strengthen behavior; punishment, response cost, and extinction weaken behavior.
What are the five basic processes of Operant Conditioning?
Her framework for evaluation of teaching includes 4 domains: physical development, cognitive development, social-emotional development, and language development.
Who is Charlotte Danielson?
A supportive environment and high efficacy expectations.
What leads to motivation?