Theories
What Teachers Do
What Students Do
Knowledge/Learning
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How do behaviorists define learning?

Learning = changes in behavior

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Taking a student off to the side and talking to them about their inappropriate behavior

Verbal reprimand

100

Students working together to achieve a shared goal and learning is supported by the group members.

Cooperative learning

100

Making connections being ideas

Robust knowledge/connected knowledge

100

The tendency to focus on information that confirms our existing beliefs and ignore information that refutes it.

Confirmation bias

200

How do cognitivists define learning?

The ways people perceive, remember, and thinking; learning = changes in memory and ways of thinking

200

Because Sonali did not clean up her desk when asked by the teacher, the teacher makes the entire class must wait 5 minutes before going to recess.

Group consequences

200

Toby knows that if he has any confusion or uncertainty about ideas from the reading, he should write them down in his notebook and revisit them later on.

Self-regulatory/conditional metacognitive knowledge

200

Students are practicing how to solve two-step algebra equations for the first time.

Acquisition phase of transfer

200

Determining the "why" behind a student's behavior.

Functional behavior analysis

300

Students who are asked to draw the organ systems of the human body are storing information:

Working memory/visuospatial sketchpad

300

Students who come to class late will have to do in-school detention.

Positive punishment

300

After learning how to do it from the teacher, Kylie teaches her classmates how to draw structural formula in chemistry class.

Reciprocal teaching

300

Playing the piano is stored as:

Procedural knowledge/procedural memory

300

Not being able to apply a strategy or idea in a way different than it's originally learned.

Functional fixedness.

400

Using rewards or punishment to influence behavior

Operant conditioning

400

Having a doctor come in and guide students through a dissection experiment.

Cognitive apprenticeshp

400

Focusing on your awesome teacher's lecture and not the loud students in the hallway.

Selective attention

400

The way/format information is presented can take up more of your cognitive resources/thinking power.

Extrinsic cognitive load

400

When a student makes a mistake in the classroom, they have an opportunity to do the right thing instead of being punished.

Positive practice

500


Classical conditioning

500

Your teacher asks you to draw a tree/hierarchy diagram to organize similar/different ideas.

Concept map

500

Brianna remembers new concepts by associating them with locations.

Mnemonic - Loci method

500

Trying to remember something helps with learning

Retrieval practice

500

The record of everything that happens to you.

Episodic memory