Theories of Cognitive Development and Learning
Explains reading comprehension and scientific thinking.
What is schema theory?
The animals used to train on reinforcement.
What are pigeons?
"equates learning with changes in either the form or frequency of observable performance."
What is behavorism?
The fictional character that Hunter's child made up while playing One-Word Story.
What is the sea cow?
The three schools that academic achievement were studied in.
What are traditional, exam, and charter public schools?
The theory that focuses on the law of exercise and the law of effect.
What is Thorndike's theory?
What the paper feared could replace teachers in the classroom.
What are mechanical devices?
"Key elements include: the way learners code, transform, rehearse, store and retrieve information"
What is cognitivism?
The year "Positive Emotions Trigger Upward Spirals Toward Emotional Well-Being" was published
What is 2002?
The grade level and state of the participants studied.
What is 8th grade and Massachusetts?
"Legacy for education includes advocacy of the constructivist orientation to learning."
Who is Jean Piaget?
"The pattern..as a constant rate of responding at a given value, it may be gradually accelerating between extremes, it may be an abrupt change..."
What are schedules of reinforcement?
Knowledge "is a function of how the individual creates meaning from his or her own experiences."
What is constructivism?
"Experiences of mild, everyday positive emotions broaden people's awareness that... build consequential personal resources that contributing to emotional and physical well-being."
What is broaden-and-build theory?
What is "students admitted to charter schools via random lotteries moved from below to well above the statewide average between fourth and eighth grade."