Cognitive Processes that involves going well beyond information specifically learned (by analyzing, applying, or evaluating it).
What is Complex Cognitive Process
100
Component of the human information processing system that oversees the flow of information throughout the system.
What is Central Executive
100
Phenomenon in which something learned at one time interfers with learning or performance at a later time.
What is Negative Transfer
100
Inclination to encode a problem or situation in a way that excludes potential solutions.
What is Mental Set
100
Process of evaluating the accuracy, credibility, and worth of information and lines of reasoning.
What is Critical Thinking
200
Knowledge and beliefs about one's own cognitive processes, as well as conscious attempts to engage in behaviors and thought processes that increase learning and memory.
What is Metacognition
200
Observing and possibly recording one's own behavior to check progress toward a goal.
What is Self-Monitoring.
200
Phenomenon in which something learned at one time facilitates learning or performance at a later time.
What is Positive Transfer
200
Prescribed sequence of steps that guarantees a correct problem solution.
What is Algorithm
200
Task or activity similar to one students might encounter in the outside world.
What is Authentic Activity
300
Diagram of concepts and their interrelationships; used to enhance learning and memory of a topic.
What is Concept Map
300
Self-reinforcement or self-punishment that follows a particular behavior.
What is Self-Imposed Contingency
300
Instance of transfer in which the original learning task and the transfer task overlap in content.
What is Specific Transfer
300
Process of pulling several pieces of information together to draw a conclusion or solve a problem.
What is Convergent Thinking
300
Classroom activity in which students acquire new knowledge and skills while working on a complex, multifaceted project that yiels a concrete end product.
What is Project-Based Learning
400
Process of checking oneself to be sure one understands and remembers newly acquired information.
What is Comprehension Monitoring
400
Process through which an adult and child share responsibility for directing various aspects of the child's learning.
What is Co-Regulated Learning
400
Instance of transfer in which the original learning task and the transfer task are different in content.
What is General Transfer
400
Process of mentally moving in a variety of directions from a single idea.
What is Divergent Thinking
400
General inclination to approach and think about learning and problem-solving tasks in a particular way.
What is Disposition
500
Thinking that one knows something that one actually does not know.
What is Illusion of Knowing
500
Process of taking control of, monitoring, and evaluating one's own learning and behavior.
What is Self-Regulation
500
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
500
Using existing knowledge or skills to address an unanswered question or troubling situation.
What is Problem Solving
500
Classroom activity in which students acquire new knowledge and skills while working on a complex problem similar to certain real-world problems.