The term that describes when one intentionally utilizes a particular approach for memory or learning.
What is "learning strategy"?
100
This is a pre-existing notion that can affect the learning process of later subject. The effects can be positive or negative.
What is "transfer"?
100
This is the process of using existing knowledge to answer a question or amend a situation.
What is "problem solving"?
100
This form of transfer uses new and original approaches to yield productive and culturally appropriate results.
What is "creativity"?
100
Since not all students are at the same level of metacognition, some students will need this. An example of which is scaffolding the metacognitive skills.
What is accommodation?
200
The term for describing the way in which one would express his or her own cognitive process.
What is "metacognition"?
200
In this form of of transfer, a learner is applying a prior concept to a new, similiar topic. This assimilation is not general.
What is "specific transfer"?
200
A problem is not always well defined. Sometimes the goal is unclear or the information is incomplete. This is a term to describe that kind of situation.
What is "ill-defined problem"?
200
This form of thinking occurs when someone converges multiple pieces of knowledge to form one conclusive product.
What is "convergent thinking"?
200
Some metacognitive diversity results from this.
What are various cultural backgrounds?
300
Taking notes or creating summaries can be described as this kind of strategy. The strategy is observable.
What is "overt strategy"?
300
Teachers are encouraged to provide these kinds of activies so that students can see how the subject matter that they are learning can be applied to real world.
What is "authentic activities"?
300
This is a pre-existing notion that sometimes prevents an answer from becoming plausible.
What is "mental set"?
300
This form of thinking occurs when someone uses one main idea to construct several subsequent ideas.
What is "divergent thinking"?
300
Having a multicultural background is thought to enhance this.
What is creative thinking and behavior?
400
This term describes regularly checking and recalling one's understanding of a of a topic. This covert strategy often uses self-explanation and/or self-questioning.
What is "comprehension monitoring"?
400
Sally loves to pretend that she works at a grocery store. One day at school at school, Sally learns that four quarters is equivalent to ten dimes or twenty nickels. She was blown away. All this time she had been simply counting the number of coins without considering their monical value. This term describes Sally's application of what she learned at school to the outside world.
What is "culture of transfer"?
400
In contrast to an algorithm, this is a strategy for problem solving that is more general and does not always yield an answer.
What is "heuristic"?
400
Bloom's taxonomy assists in creating this in order to ensure a better understanding of a concept from the students. This will use complex cognitive processes.
What is "higher-level question"?
400
Critical thinking skills may be varied by cultural, because some cultures believe that all answers should be derived from these. Examples include religious leaders, political leaders, or elders.
What are authority figures.
500
One might could blame the "illusion of knowing" on this kind of belief, if the students' perception of knowledge states that learning is an immediate result of instruction.
What is "epistemic beliefs"?
500
For example, colleges often enforce a basic-level set of courses that all students are expected to take regardless of how relevant those courses may seem to any one student's declared major. This exemplifies the idea that an expanded knowledge of various topics can assist in the transfer of knowledge for other subjects.
What is "formal discipline"?
500
This computer software is individualized to help students with problem solving.
What is "intelligent tutoring system"?
500
These are the four kinds of critical thinking.
What is verbal reasoning, argument analysis, probabilistic reasoning, and hypothesis testing?
500
These students will benefit from assistance in practicing effective strategies for learning subject matter.