Vocab Words
This is a tightly organized set of facts about a specific topic
What is Schema
This technique is when desired behaviors are reinforced by small, insignificant items that people can use to "purchase" one or more desired objects activities, or privileges
What is Token Economy
This is a theoretical perspective in which learning and behavior are described and explained in terms of stimulus response relationships
What is Behaviorism
This is the process of putting new information into memory
What is Storage
This theorist came up with the theory of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget
This is a memory aid or trick designed to help students learn and remember one or more specific pieces of information
What is Mnemonic
This is demonstrating a behavior for another person or observing and imitating another person's behavior.
What is Modeling
This educational method that aims to foster social and emotional skills within school curricula.
What is SEL
The universal process in brain development in which many previously formed but rarely used synapses gradually wither away
What is synaptic pruning
This author wrote Human Learning
Who is Jeanne Ellis Ormrod
What is Growth Mindset
This support mechanism helps a learner successfully perform a challenging task (i.e., a task within the learner's zone of proximal development)
What is scaffolding
This theoretical perspective emphasizes the importance of social relationships and culture in promoting learning and development
What is Sociocultural Theory
This is the small part of the brain that is located between the hindbrain and forebrain; plays supporting roles in vision and hearing
What is the Midbrain
This theorist came up with the theory of Zone of Development
Who is Lev Vygotsky
People's awareness and understanding of their own thinking and learning process, as well as their regulation of those processes to enhance their learning and memory.
What is Metacognition
This approach to instruction is when one student provides instruction to help another student master a classroom topic
What is peer tutoring
This is a range of tasks that a learner can perform with the help and guidance of others but cannot yet perform independently
What is Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
This is the ability to mentally save something that has been previously learned
What is memory
He is known as the "Father of American Education"
Who is Horace Mann
This concerns the nature of how things are, were or will be
This classroom activity is when students acquire new knowledge and skills while working on a complex problem similar to one that might exist in the outside world
What is problem-based learning
These are the five needs in Maslow's Hirearchy of Needs
What are
1. Physiological Needs (Deficiency need)
2. Safety Needs (Deficiency need)
3. Love and Belonging Needs (Deficiency need)
4. Esteem Needs (Deficiency need)
5. Need for Self-Actualization (Growth need)
This neuron in the brain fires either when a person is performing a particular behavior or when the person sees someone else perform the behavior
What is mirror neuron
She is known for her work on growth and fixed mindset
Who is Carol Dweck