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Psychologist known for creating the theory aligned with fulfilling innate human needs in a hierarchy.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This theorist believes that teachers should be heavily involved in the development process and coined the term Zone of Proximal Development.
Who is Vygotsky?
Actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.
What are schemas?
Psychologist responsible for the theory explaining how a child constructs a mental model of the world.
Who is Piaget?
Time a student is successfully engaged in learning activities.
What is allocated time?
The ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit.
What is Automaticity?.
The stage in Piaget's theory where a child can organize data logically?
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
This occurs when children incorporate new information into their existing schemas.
What is Assimilation?
The use of scientific data to improve instructional and interactive techniques.
What are Applied Behavior Analysis Strategies?
Psychologist who maintained that personality develops in a predetermined order through eight stages.
Who is Erikson?
The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
What is Elaboration?
The ability to make rational decisions about what to do or what to believe.
What is Critical Thinking?
The measurment of intellectual accomplishments that are worthwhile, significant, and meaningful.
What is Authentic Assessment?
Memorization of facts or associations that might be essentially arbitrary.
What is Rote Learning?
View of cognitive development that emphasized the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality.
What is Constructivism?
Learning by observation and imitation of others.
What is Observational Learning?
Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.
What are Behavioral Learning Theories?
Psychologist who believes behavior is learned through observation.
Who is Albert Bandura?
A technique that involves changing the level of support for learning.
What is Scaffolding?
Instructional approaches in which students work in small mixed-ability groups.
What is cooperative learning?
A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases behavior.
What is a Reinforcer?
Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge.
What are Criterion-Referenced Interpretations?
Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing, storage, and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
What is the Information-Processing Theory?
The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others.
What is Self-Regulation?
The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
What is Elaboration?