Personal Learning Theories

Psychology Across all Disciplines

Holistic Approach to Prior Learning
Integrating Psychology into Career and Educational Deecisions
Integrating Psychology into your Personal Life
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The tendency to motivate human beings to satisfy biological survival needs is a common thing that is used to make sure all other needs are met.
What is Opportunistic Functioning?
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This main approach evolved from Howard Gardner and is embraced by the holistic method to prior learning.
What is Multiple Intelligence?
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The most important thing to do when answering assessment questionnaires such as those used to make career and educational decisions .
What is to be honest?
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The "hierarchy of needs" shows that there are five levels of basic needs that people need to reach; psychological, security, social, esteem, and self-actualization. The creator of this model is?
Who is Abraham Maslow
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This theory was developed by a Swiss psychologist and follows the belief that intellectual development occurs in stages through interactions between a person and his or her environment.
What is Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
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What is the name of the term that describes why individuals act differently in certain situations?
What is Personality Trait
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This approach is concerned with the whole complete system rather than the treatment of or other attempts of learning?
What is Holistic Approach to Learning
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A theory that bases work motivation on the balance between perceived contributions (inputs) and rewards (outcomes) (Spector, 2008).
What is equity theory?
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Deliberately staying focused on the positive, finding healthy ways to cope with stress, building strategies to overcome adversity, fostering supportive relationships are all examples of this.
What is integrating positive psychology into your personal life.
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This theory has eight stages of development that focuses on the different stages of development and this theory was developed by what psychologist?
Who is Erik Erikson
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What are the four major theoretical models in clinical psychology?The use of standardized tests and questionnaires to identifying a student’s strengths and weaknesses in areas such as cognitive development, academic achievement, adaptive functioning, visual perception, motor coordination, visual-motor integration, behavior, and emotion.
What is psychoeducational testing?
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What is the main principle Offering professional help in the field of language, learning, behavior, and motor delays/disorders, these centers help children with disorders reach full potential focusing on all areas such as health, nutrition, language, motor development, cognition, and social skills.
What are Holistic Learning Centers
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A psychological test that focuses on the personality assessment of an individual in a career or educational purpose.
What is self-report ?
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Parents use these two methods when teaching children to behave a certain way. Pavlov’s method consists of behavior performed in order to reach a desired result and Skinner’s method consists of behavior performed as a means of avoiding undesired results.
What is classical conditioning and operant conditioning?
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Generally attributed to Jean Piaget, this learning theory suggests that learning occurs by incorporating new experiences into previously built mental frameworks called schemas.
What is constructivism learning theory?
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The focus on random assignment of clients into well-controlled and evaluated treatment and control conditions with particular agreed upon standards for the implementation and reporting of this research (Hollon, 2006).
What is randomized clinical trials (RCTs).
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He is the great physician of antiquity and has been known as the father of medicine
Who is Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
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What personality inventory helps individuals determine which educational and career choice is right for them?
What is the Myers Briggs
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What test was originally designed to track the progress of students?A young woman has unresolved feelings about her mother who has recently passed away. She had not spoken to her mother for two years prior to her passing because of differences in their opinions. The young woman did not have a chance to say goodbye or speak to her about her unresolved feelings. The young woman visits a psychologist to help her with her unresolved feelings towards her mother. The psychologist asks the young woman to speak to her mother as if her mother was in the room with them sitting in an empty chair. In this scenario the psychologist is using this.
What is Gestalt therapy, or what is the empty chair technique (Fifić, & Townsend, 2010)?
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This major theoretical concept originated because of a ophthalmologist named von Senden (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009). He conducted a study on adults with hereditary cataracts who gained the ability to see (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009). The individuals were asked to identify objects such as circles, squares, and triangles, but were unable to (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009). Austin Riesen conducted a similar study by raising infant monkeys in complete darkness until two years-old (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009). Riesen found that when the monkeys were taken out of darkness the monkeys continued to act blind, but began to behave normally after a few weeks (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009). The name of this theoretical concept is this.
What is the restricted environments theory (Olson & Hergenhanh, 2009)?
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This person suffered from malignant narcissism in one of the most extreme cases to date. The components creating his narcissism began with his birth and remained responsible for his death. He changed history and provided answers for abnormal personality disorders. Ironically, his history provided answers to his behavior and actions. He also had biological, emotional, and cognitive-behavioral components resulting in a malignant narcissistic personality disorder, and ultimately held responsible for the Holocaust.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
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Many British philosophers took an atomistic approach to psychology during the 18th and 19th centuries (Goodwin, 2005). This philosopher was born in 1806 and became deeply involved with political and social reforms at the age of 15 (Goodwin, 2005). This philosopher also influenced the development of the holistic approach to psychology to argue against the popular atomistic approach (Goodwin, 2005). This philosopher said that complex ideas are more important than the smaller and simpler ideas that make up the complex idea (Goodwin, 2005). In other words, the whole picture is more important than the individual parts that create the picture.
Who is John Stuart Mill
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Many educators use the techniques of positive reinforcement, punishment and extinction to change behaviors of children in the classroom.
What is behavioral psychology?
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This type of discipline in psychology requires opinion based on observation and much thinking. Heredity, environment, and other influences shape the attitudes and behaviors of different individuals around the world. Demographics can impact ones customs, traditions and psychological norms or abnormalities. This disciple must be included in psychological validity and can vary, depending on the context. What seems abnormal in one country can seem perfectly normal in another. These differences can include language, religion, clothing, and even food.
What is Cross-Cultural Psychology?
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