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HEALTH EDUCATION
Types of Learning and Learning Styles
Question | Answer |
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The acquisition of knowledge and skills that changes a person’s behavior (behaviorist) | Learning |
Acquisition of knowledge than on the resulting behavior change (cognitive theory) | Learning |
“The process whereby novices become more expert” (Breur, 1993) | Learning |
The amount of knowledge and understanding you already possess on a subject will have a tremendous influence on what and how you learn | domain-specific learning |
Thinking about one’s thinking | Metacognition |
A process learners use to gauge their thinking while reading, studying, trying to learn, or problem solving | Metacognition |
Some people are intelligent novices | Metacognition |
An innate ability that predicts success in learnin | Intelligence |
sensitivity to and mastery of words and language | Linguistic |
– reasoning deductively and recognizing abstract patterns | Logical-Mathematical |
creating and manipulating mental images | Spatial |
understanding and creating music | Aural-auditory/Musical |
skilled coordination of movement and awareness of the body | Bodily-Kinesthetic |
understanding relationships and communication | Interpersonal |
understanding one’s own feelings and emotion | Intrapersonal |
they tend to see positive educational outcomes when they are presented with summarizing charts and diagrams rather than sequential slides of information | Visual Learners |
often find success in group activities where they are asked to discuss course materials vocally with their classmates, and they may benefit from reading their written work aloud to themselves to help them think it through | Auditory Learners |
should be encouraged to take copious notes during classroom lectures to help them both process information and have an easier time recalling it later | Reading/Writing Learners |
often have the most difficult time succeeding in conventional classroom settings | Kinesthetic Learners |
These students also often thrive in scientific subjects with lab components, as the skills-based, instructional training that occurs in these settings engages them in productive ways | Kinesthetic Learners |
The ability to be successful in life within the person’s own culture and based on the person’s goals | Theory of Successful Intelligence |
Metacognition is part of intelligence therefore state that | intelligence alone is the best predictor of learning |
There is consolidation function in the memory process | Memory |
formed when information is clustered into patterns | Chunking |
If you were to form chunks by grouping the words in some meaningful way, you remember even more. | Chunking |
The ability to take information learned in one situation and apply it to another | Transfer |