Theoretical perspective that focuses on people's collective efforts to impose meaning on the world.
What is Social Constructivism?
100
Long-term change in mental representions or associations due to experience.
What is Learning?
100
Ability to save something (mentally) that has been previously learned; also the mental "location" where such information is saved.
What is Memory?
100
Focusing of mental processes on particular stimuli.
What is Attention?
100
Cognitive process in which learners embellish on new information baesd on what they alread know.
What is Elaboration?
200
Theoretical perspective that focuses on how people as individuals, construct meaning from their experiences.
What is Individual Constructivism?
200
Cell in the brain or another part of the nervous system that specializes in transmitting information to other cells.
What is a Neuron?
200
Process of putting new information into memory.
What is Storage?
200
Cognitive process in which information is repeated over and over as a possible way of learning and remembering it.
What is Rehearsal?
200
Cognitive process in which learners form mental pictures of objects or ideas.
What is Visual Imagery?
300
Changing the format of information being stored in memory in order to remember it more easily.
What is Encoding?
300
Tiny space across which one neuroon regularly communicates with another; reflects an ongoing but modifiable connection between two neurons.
What is a Synapse?
300
Process of finding information previously stored in memory.
What is Retrieval?
300
Knowledge related to what is - that is, to the nature of how things are, were, or will be.
What is Declarative Knowledge?
300
Cognitive process in which learners find connections among various pieces of information they need to learn (e.g., by forming categories, identifying hierarchies, determining cause -and-effect relationships).
What is Organization?
400
Various ways of thinking about information and events.
What is Cognition?
400
Star-shaped brain cell hypothesized to be involved in learning and memory; has chemically mediated connections with many other astrocytes and with neurons.
What is an Astrocyte?
400
Component of memory that holds incoming information in an unanalyzed form for a very brief time (perhaps one to two seconds).
What is the Sensory Registar?
400
Knowledge concerning how to do something - such as a skill
What is Procedural Knowledge?
400
A person's existing knowledge about specific topics and the world in general.
What is Knowledge Base?
500
Particular way of mentally responding to or thinking about information or an event.
What is Cognitive Process?
500
Upper and lower pats of the human brain, which are largely responsible for conscious and complex cognitive processes.
What is the Cortex?
500
Component of memory that holds and actively thinks about and processes a limited amount of information for a short time period.
What is the Working Memory?
500
Schema that involves a predictable sequence of events related to a common activity.
What is a Script?
500
Ability to respond quickly and efficiently while mentally processing or physically performing a task.