Learning which is not apparent in the learner's behavior at the time of learning, but which manifests later when a suitable motivation and circumstances appear.
Latent learning
100
An organism is predisposed to organize experience in certain ways. (How people organize information)
Law of proximity
100
Learning a set of items in a sequence
Serial Learning
100
process of construction occurring separately within each learner
Individual constructivisim
200
Tolman's theory of learning...Behavior has a purpose, that of goal attainment.
Purposive behaviorism
200
an optical illusion
Phi Phenomenon
200
Involves learning pairs of items
Paired-Associate Learning:
200
encompasses theories that focus on how people work together to create new knowledge.
Social Constructivism
300
What is a mental representation of the layout of one's environment.
Cognitive maps
300
People tend to perceive as a unit those things that physically resemble one another.
Law of Similarity
300
The tendency for the first items in a serial learning curve to be learned and remembered easily
Primary effect
300
Places emphasis on importance of physical and social environment---the context---as it affects cognition and learning.
What is contextual theory?
400
Who is a prominent learning theorist who valued the importance of objectivity in research and used nonhuman species as subjects of his research
Edward Tolman
400
People tend to fill in missing pieces to form a complete picture.
Law of closure
400
The tendency for the last items to be learned and remembered easily.
Recency effect
400
The approach to studying human learning----how people think/process. It includes a variety of theories presently...about how people mentally deal with new information.
What is informational processing theory?
500
Who performed an experiment on three groups of rats under different reinforcement conditions?
Tolman and Honzik
500
Individuals organize their experience as simply, concisely, symmetrically, and completely as possible.