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Ch.7 Teach & Learn
Teaching and Learning Final Ch.7
| Learning style | individual preference for receiving and processing new information |
| Global learner | learner who learns more easily when first presented with the big picture and then asked to concentrate on details |
| Analytic learner | learner who prefers to have new information presented in a sequential manner building toward the main concept |
| Modal strength | the preferred perceptual mode through which a learner takes in and processes information |
| Positive transfer | the learning of a new skill or its performance under novel conditions is positively influenced by past experience with another skill or skills |
| Negative transfer | the learning of a new skill or its performance under novel conditions is negatively influenced by past experience with another skill or skills |
| Zero transfer | past experience with another skill or skills has no influence on the learning of a new skill or its performance under novel conditions |
| Transfer appropriate processing theory | theory that we should expect positive transfer when practice conditions require learners to engage in problem-solving processes similar to those that the criterion task requires |
| Motivation | internal condition that incites and directs action or behavior |
| Transfer | Phenomenon in which the learning of a new skill or its performance under novel conditions is influenced by past experience with another skill or skills |