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A framework that is used to describe an event or set of events
Theory
Teachers support students by directing their learning
Scaffolding
Increases behavior when presented immediately following the response
Positive Reinforcer
One's beliefs about what one is capable of doing
Self-Efficacy
Using cognitive skills to help control one's behavior
Cognitive Behavior Modification (CBM)
A packet of knowledge about a particular concept that is stored in long-term memory
Schema
Classwide Peer Tutoring (CWPT)
Knowledge about steps or procedures that is stored in long-term memory
Procedural Knowledge
Without holding reinforcement so as to extinguish a behavior
Extinction
Knowledge about facts and things-the knowledge of what
Declarative Knowledge
A crucial aspect for remembering information from observations; an essential component for observational learning
Retention
Any response that is followed by a reinforcing stimulus tends to be repeated, and any response that is followed by punishment or by being ignored tends not to be repeated
Operant Conditioning
The range between a student's present problem-solving developmental capability adn what the student is capable of when guided by an expert
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
Any response that is followed by reinforcing stimulus tends to be repeated, and any response that is followed by punishment or being ignored tends not to be repeated
Operant Conditioning
A memory store when various activities occur such as organizing new information, retrieval of information from long-term memory, and encoding of new information with information from long-term memory
Working Memory
An overreaching, supervisory mechanism that controls many different cognitive processes; in regard to metacognition it refers specifically to the coordination of procedural, declarative, and conditional knowledge
Executive Function