Self-Regulation and Metacognition
What effective learners engage in to take control, monitor, and evaluate their own learning.
What is self-regulation?
A phenomenon in which something a person has learned at one time affects how the person learns or performs in a later situation.
What is Transfer?
The process of generating novel ideas (in the form of responses, solutions, products, concepts, or approaches) that meet the constraints of the task.
What is Creativity?
Involves a variety of cognitive processes, such as problem solving, critical thinking, and reasoning.
What is thinking?
Small spaces between the neurons.
What are synapses?
Procedure students use to direct their efforts in the classroom.
What are self-instructions?
Nick speaks both English and Spanish. He starts to learn French and notices that it is very similar to Spanish. So, he does very well in French. This type of transfer is called...
What is Positive Transfer?
In contrast to convergent thinking, this type of thinking is the process of generating many different ideas from a single starting point.
What is Divergent Thinking?
Six cognitive processes, varying in complexity, that lessons might be designed to foster.
What is Bloom's taxonomy?
Area of the cerebral cortex involved in visual processing.
What is the function of the occipital lobe?
Tasks learners use to continually check their progress toward their goals, and they change their learning strategies or modify their goals (if necessary).
What is self-monitoring?
Students acquire better writing skills when they write stories and essays for a real audience. This would be an example an activity called...
What is an Authentic Activity?
The overall psychological atmosphere of the classroom, where students can speak "outside the box" and make mistakes without fear of embarrassment.
What is Classroom Climate?
Evaluating the accuracy, credibility, and worth of information and lines of reasoning.
How can we engage in a learning strategy?
Students judge their own performance with respect to the goals and standards they've set for themselves.
How can you define self-evaluation?
The instance of transfer in which the original learning task and the transfer task are different in both content and structure.
What is General Transfer?
A specific sequence of steps that guarantees a correct solution.
What is Algorithm?
General inclination to approach and think about learning and problem solving tasks in a particular way; typically has a motivational component in addition to cognitive components.
What is disposition?
Giving definitions to students in lessons, activities, and examples.
What is one classroom teaching strategy?
Self-reinforcement or self-punishment that follows a particular behavior.
What is a self-imposed contingency?
Instance of transfer in which the original learning task and the transfer task overlap in some way.
What is Specific Transfer?
A general strategy that facilitates problem solving and creativity but does not always yield a successful outcome.
What is a Heuristic Approach?
Remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create.
What are the 6 cognitive processes in Bloom's taxonomy?
The tendency to look for what one thinks is true and ignore evidence to the contrary.
What is the definition of confirmation bias?