Focus is on observable behavior, not cognition. Use rewards and punishment to change a students' behavior.
What is Behaviorism?
100
Thinking about thinking.
What is Metacognition?
100
Sensorimortor, Pre-operational, Concrete operational, and Formal operational
What are Piaget's stages of development?
100
Removing a stimulus to reduce certain behaviors
What is negative punishment?
100
A persistent change in behavior.
What is learning?
200
An internal mental process that may or may not be reflected in immediate behavioral change.
What is the social cognitive definition of learning?
200
Using knowledge that was in learned in one situation in a different situation.
What is Transfer?
200
The two kinds of learning that Piaget suggested lead to equilibrium.
What are Assimilation and Accommodation?
200
This theory believes that reinforcement and punishment influence expectations about consequences of behaviors
What is Social Cognitive Theory?
200
Process of evaluating the accuracy and worth of information and lines of reasoning
What is critical thinking?
300
Memory works like a computer. Information moves into your sensory memory, then working memory, then long-term memory.
What is Information Processing Theory?
300
The purposeful act of attempting to control our own cognitions, beliefs, emotions and values.
What is metacognitive regulation?
300
The difference between what a student can do alone, and what they can do with the help of a more capable other. The "other" can be a person or a context.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?
300
An advanced peer or adult assisting novices how to act within a particular discipline
What is guided participation?
300
A mental structure that represents an abstract or general kind of experience. It is a sort of script.
What is a schema?
400
Learning is tied to the context in which it is learned or used. We should focus on teaching useful knowledge that people will use in their everyday lives.
What is Sociocultural Theory?
400
Transfer that requires mindful abstraction.
What is High Road Transfer?
400
The process by which a child learns first through their interactions with others, then using verbal speech to communicate their thinking as they act and then acting on their own by thinking silently.
What is internalization?
400
Processes information from sensory memory, maintains new information and retrieves task-relevant information from long-term memory to work with it
What is working memory?
400
A belief in your ability to accomplish a task.
What is self efficacy?
500
Individuals learn by constructing their own knowledge, based on prior ideas and experiences.
What is Constructivism?
500
Three types of metacognitive knowledge
What are 1) Declarative / self, 2) Task / procedural, and 3) Strategy / conditional?
500
The first would argue that is necessary before learning, while the other would argue that learning can lead to development.
Who are Piaget and Vygotsky?
500
Infrequent use of certain skills may cause synaptic connections to weaken or degenerate
What is synaptic pruning?
500
As an individual uses certain combination of skills repeatedly, the brain begins to recognize the pattern and becomes faster and more efficient at performing the task