What Do Healthcare Learners Learn?
Behaviourist Learning Theories
Cognitive Learning Theories
Humanistic Learning Theories
Learner’s Approach and Learning Style
100

This determines the professional competence that each profession’s pre-registration students have to achieve for their name to be entered on the HCPC professional register.

Standards of Proficiency (SOP)

100

____ refers to learning through the response to particular stimuli, resulting in classical conditioning or operant conditioning.

Behaviourist Learning Theories

100

What are three types of Cognitive Learning Theories?

The Gestalt Theory of Learning, Ausubel et al.’s Assimilation Theory, Experiential Learning

100

What is one similarity between how children learn and how adults learn?

The need for an effective student-teacher relationship based on mutual trust!

100

What popular learning style is analogous to osteopathic philosophy vs. allopathic philosophy, respectively?

Holistic vs.Serialistic (Respectively)

200

How many generic SOPs does the HCPC have for allied healthcare professionals to use as a template for their SOPs?

15

200

____ refers to changes in behaviour through stimulus–response, whereby the desirable responses to particular stimuli, that is, newly learned behaviours, are rewarded.

Classical Conditioning

200

To structure learning so that learners are given problem situations to resolve (such as in problem-based learning), and through group discussions, analysing ideas and trial and error, whereby particular insights are gained. This is an example of?

Gestalt’s Theory of Learning

200

A medium for resolving any doubt that there may be about specific purposes of the learning experience. It clarifies the activities that the student would engage in and provides motivation and reinforcement through the achievement of objectives. This is like a syllabus!

A Learning Contract

200

What popular learning style did we figure out for ourselvesin discussion 1 of this class? I want the full name, not just the acronym!

Visual, Aural, Read-write or Kinaesthetuc (VARK)

300

Professional Standards are reviewed every _______

Five Years

300

____ approximations of desired behaviour are rewarded and thereby the target behaviour develops gradually.

Operant Conditioning

300

What are the ten types of learning encounters related to experiential learning?

Non-Learning, Non-Consideration, Rejection, Ambivalence, Incidental Learning, Memorisation, Emotional Learning, Action Learning, Discovery Learning, Reflective Learning

300

Give me at least three characteristics of individuals who achieve Maslow’s Self Actualization!

  • demonstrating acceptance of self and others
  • accepting problems as learning opportunities
  • demonstrating democratic character
  • having a philosophical, non-hostile sense of humour
  • showing creativeness
  • seeming to transcend any culture.
300

Nirun engages with full interest with the course content. He relates ideas to previous knowledge and experience. What type of approach am I Taking?

Deep Approach

400

_____ refers to the autonomous application of skills, relevant knowledge, appropriate attitude, and values when engaged in service-user clinical care interventions that are safe and effective, and aim to restore, maintain, and/or promote health.

COMPETENCE

400

This is a theory where the individual observes the competent behavior performed by a professional, learns and reproduces the behavior, and adopts behavior if there is further positive reinforcement.

Social Learning Theory

400

Prior to a practice placement with a physiotherapist, the learner could be advised to revise or learn about the microstructure of muscles, in readiness for learning how they are strengthened through exercises by a patient who has had a broken leg operated on. An example of ____

Ausubel et al.’s Assimilation Theory

400

A type of learning that is popularly known as “learning by doing”

Ripplea Model of Learning

400

Tinky Winky studies without reflecting on the knowledge presented. This teletubby feels undue pressure and worries about coursework. What learning approach does tinky winky take?

Surface Approach

500

The four types of knowledge that healthcare professionals use are_____

Empirical Knowledge, Ethical Knowledge, Aesthetic Knowledge, Personal Knowledge

500

Students with a weak academic background might achieve high levels in academia if earlier attempts are positively reinforced. This is an example of?

Operant Conditioning

500

___ describes the view that learning is an internal purposive action involving thinking, perception, information processing and memory.

Cognitive Learning Theories

500

The three types of Humanistic Learning Theories are ____

  1. Alan Rogers’ characteristics of adult education and andragogy
  2. Maslow’s learning as self-actualisation
  3. Carl Rogers’ student-centred approach to teaching.
500

Tezzie the tessler puts consistent effort into studying, manages and organizes time with the greatest efficiency, and gears learning to the perceived preferences of lecturers. What type of learning approach does tezzie the tezzler take?

Strategic Approach