Basic Terms
Cognitive, psychomotor, affective
Practice methods that combine aspects of both whole and part practice.
What are whole-part, part-whole, and whole-part-whole methods?
Previous learning has a favorable effect on new learning.
What is positive transfer?
Skills used by learners to manage their own "learning, remembering, and thinking."
What are cognitive strategies?
An idea or picture in the brain that aids understanding; perceptions, meanings, feelings and the words or symbols used to discuss them.
What is a concept?
Classification of the behaviors students can be expected to demonstrate
What is educational taxonomy?
Practice with little or no rest in between.
What is massed practice?
Negative transfer in which prior learning interferes with new information.
What is proactive transfer?
Memorization.
What is rote learning?
Involves organizing environmental input into categories for storage in the brain.
What is concept learning?
The process of entering information into the brain through the senses.
Perception
Practice interspersed with rest or alternate activities.
What is distributed practice?
Persistence of knowledge.
What is retention?
Actively connecting new to previously learned material to form meaningful relationships.
What is meaningful verbal learning?
Involves the ability to perceive features in an object or event that are the same as or different from features in other objects or events.
What is discrimination?
Amount of time students attend to instruction.
Engaged time.
Sedentary practice in which the learn imagines performing and the muscles receive stimulation, but no overt movement occurs.
What is mental practice?
Information about performance or results during or immediately after performance - verbal, nonverbal, or kinesthetic.
What is feedback?
Skills that use verbal information to help learners interact with the environment.
What are intellectual skills?
A meaningful relationship between two or more concepts.
What is rule learning?
Time student is engaged with motor activities at a high rate of success.
What is ALT-PE?
Task matched with learners' developmental capabilities; challenging, yet achievable.
What is optimum challenge?
Knowledge or facts; things learners can tell.
What is verbal information?
Shows how new material will relate to previously learned knowledge; shows the relationship of parts to the whole>
What is an expository organizer?
Uses rules to help the learner interact with the environment.
What is problem solving?