Behavioral Psychology
Only o_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ behavior can be considered objective.
observable
Scientific study of m_ _ _ _ _ processes.
mental
Learning is an a_ _ _ _ _ and s_ _ _ _ _ process.
Learning is an active and social process.
He is considered the father of behaviorism.
John B. Watson
Behavior is the result of an association between a s_____ and a r______.
Behavior is the result of an association between a stimulus and a response.
It is the term given to the structures and processes involved in the storage and subsequent retrieval of information. There are two types of m______.
Memory
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the s_____ level and, later on, on the i _________ level
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level and, later on, on the individual level.
Author who identified children's stages of cognitive development.
Jean Piaget
Rewards and punishments can be used to change behavior so they are called positive and negative _____.
reinforcement
This ability allows you to take in knowledge about relevant stimuli in the world around you while at the same time filtering out things that are not particularly important.
Attention
Distance between the learners existing state and their potential.
Zone of Proximal Development
Representative of social constructivism.
Technique in which a neutral stimulus is paired with another stimulus in order to evoke the same response.
Classical conditioning
A s_ _ _ _ _ is a mental framework of beliefs and expectations developed from experience that helps us organize and interpret information.
schema
Intentional use of items to interact with the environment in order to modify it and gain specific benefits.
Mediation
Cognitive constructivist who proposed three modes of representation: enactive, iconic and symbolic.
A technique in which an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior.
Operant conditioning
I_____ p____ is an approach that considers the human mind like a computer, following processes such as transforming, storing and retrieving data from memory.
Information processing
A process in which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning. This support can be gradually faded.
Scaffolding
This humanistic researcher developed a hierarchical theory of human motivation.
Maslow