Grand Theorists
Motivation & Affect
Cognition
Behavior
Miscellaneous
100
Most high school students are in this stage of cognitive development.
What is formal operations?
100
Feelings, emotions, and moods that a learner brings to a task.
What is affect?
100
Teachers can use these to help students remember where to look for information in LTM.
What are retrieval cues?
100
Deb sees the PE teacher scolding Sue for not passing the ball in soccer so she stops hogging the ball too.
What is vicarious punishment?
100
In 6th grade history class the teacher provides an outline to help students take comprehensive notes during his lectures.
What is scaffolding? Or what is an example of an accommodation?
200
The good boy/good girl stage.
What is the moral reasoning stage that many junior high and high school students are in? Or What is the first stage of the second level of Kohlberg's moral reasoning theory also known as conventional morality?
200
Javier doesn't pay attention in math class because the class is boring. This need is not being met.
What is the need for arousal?
200
Sally's strategy is to spell the word out loud over and over again so she can remember how to spell it.
What is an example of rehearsal?
200
The teacher cancels homework for the weekend because everyone did well on the quiz.
What is an example of negative reinforcement?
200
An increase in cheating is common with this type of achievement goal.
What is a performance goal?
300
Identity vs. Role Confusion
What is the primary conflict of adolescence according to Erikson's theory?
300
This occurs when learners are intrigued by current events such as natural disasters.
What is situational interest (p. 194)? or What is hot cognition (p. 212)?
300
Meaningful learning occurs when you use these strategies. Name at least 2 strategies.
What are elaboration, organization, and visual imagery?
300
11th grade economics students know how to calculate % in math class, but when they need to apply that knowledge in economics they don't know how.
What is situated learning or situated cognition?
300
The 2 kinds of knowledge in LTM.
What are procedural knowledge (how to do things) and declarative knowledge ("what is"/based in words)?
400
Conservation occurs in this stage.
What is concrete operations?
400
Sarah's goal is to improve her layups so she practices in the gym by herself over and over again.
What is a mastery goal?
400
Both convergent thinking and divergent thinking are constrained by this.
What is working memory capacity?
400
David spent countless hours practicing his speech in the hopes that he would get an A on it.
What is an example of an incentive?
400
The four basic psychological needs in order to learn.
What are the need for arousal, relatedness, competence and self-determination? ARCS!!!
500
The adolescent is exploring many careers and beliefs, but is not committed to any particular career or set of beliefs.
What is moratorium?
500
Adoption of other people's priorities and values as one's own.
What is internalized motivation?
500
This is an inclination to encode a problem in a way that excludes potential solutions.
What is mental set or functional fixedness?
500
Name 3 things highly effective teachers do to create an effective classroom environment.
What are: arrange classroom to maximize attention, communicate acceptance/caring, create sense of community, create goal-oriented environment, establish rules & procedures, enforce rules equitably, plan for transitions, keep students engaged in worthwhile tasks, take individual differences into account, continually monitor students (withitness)?
500
Dramatic changes occur in the classroom when teachers do this one simple thing.
What is increasing wait time? (p. 47)
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