Behaviorism
Social Cognitive Theory
Piaget
Vygotsky
Information Processing
100

The type of conditioning used by Jim when he taught Dwight to reach out his hand at the sound of his computer rebooting

What is classical conditioning

100

These are the types of modeling teachers are using when they talk through their thought process while explaining how to solve a math problem on the board?

What is cognitive modeling and verbal modeling

100

A child struggles to understand other people's points of view because of this trait

What is egocentrism

100

This is the type of tool that includes using a mnemonic device to recall the names of new people

What is psychological

100

This part of the information processing model is where all of the sights, sounds, and smells enter

What is sensory register

200

The term for when a teacher has successfully stopped a student's disruptive behavior by ignoring it instead of giving it attention like a previous teacher did

What is extinction

200

This term is used to describe a learner's belief in their ability to write a good research paper

What is self-efficacy

200

These are the many internal working models in our heads that we have formed, we use these to help categorize information and understand how the world works

What are scheme

200

This type of speech is likely being used when you are trying to merge on a busy highway

What is private speech

200

In order to move information from the working memory to the long term memory, you must do this.

What is encode

300

This is the strategy used by the researchers who taught pigeons to play ping pong by rewarding them each time the birds progressed towards moving the ping pong balls

What is shaping

300

These are the three parts of self regulation

planning, monitoring and evaluating

300

This is the process that occurs if a child loves fish but has only learned about a few kinds. His parents take him to an aquarium and when he leaves, he now knows about 20 different kinds of fish.

What is assimilation

300

This is the strategy being used teacher uses visual aids to give support to students as they work on mastering new vocabulary

What is scaffolding

300

All knowledge stored in our long term memory can be divided into a few types. This is the type that would include things like knowing that the sky is blue

What is declarative knowledge

400

In operant conditioning, this is the term used to describe a student being given detention for skipping class.

What is positive punishment

400

This term describes the fact that I do not have to experience getting suspended for pulling the bus fire alarm in order to learn that it is an unacceptable behavior

What is vicarious punishment

400

There are two jars filled equally with juice, however one jar is tall and thin, while the other is shorter and wider. This is the concept that causes a young child to believe that the taller jar has more juice.

What is conservation

400

This is the constant dialogue going on in our minds.

What is inner speech

400

This describes being aware of your thinking processes

What is meta-cognition

500

This is the term for when a child has a negative experience in elementary school, and then believes that their experience in middle school will also be negative.

What is generalization

500

I will never have the physical ability to do well in the NFL which inhibits this key aspect of learning from models

What is reproduction

500

This is the term for the cognitive confusion caused by a child when they try to use a gameboy as a touch screen in the same way they used their ipad

What is disequilibrium

500

This is the process used when, without the help of his son, Homer Simpson was unable to ride a bike, but with the help of his son, he eventually learned.

What is working in the zone of proximal development

500

This is the strategy I used to encode new names into my long term memory by connecting the new names to characters from my favorite tv show.

What is Elaboration