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WGU FHT5 FOT: Human Development and Learning

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Cognitive Development   show
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Piaget's cognitive development theory   show
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Schemes   show
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Adaptation   show
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Assimilation   show
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Accommodation   show
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Constructivism   show
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show stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. "Object Permanence" and gradual progression from reflexive to goal-directed behavior.  
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Preoperational stage (ages 2-7)   show
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Concrete operational stage (ages 7-11)   show
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show Stage in which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. Problems can be solved by use of systematic experimentation. Can monitor their own thinking.  
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show The concept that certain properties of an object remain the same regardless of changes in other properties. Pre-operational stage children don't understand that ten blocks scrunched together is the same as ten blocks spread apart.  
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show Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation. ie. children centered on the height of the glass of milk assuming that a tall skinny glass has more milk than a short wide glass...centered on the height.  
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show Believing that everyone views the world the way exactly as you do.  
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Inferred reality   show
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Seriation   show
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Transitivity   show
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show Developed during the concrete operational stage. Children can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and relationships among its subordinates. ie. are there more boys or children in the class?  
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Developmentally appropriate education   show
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Piaget's theory -vs- Vygotsky's theory of development   show
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Self-regulation   show
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show Childrens' self talk, which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as silent inner speech.  
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Zone of proximal development   show
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show Support for learning and problem solving; might include hints, reminders, encouragement or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.  
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show 1. Structure 2. Readiness 3. Intuition 4.Motivation  
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show the teaching and learning of structure rather that simply the mastery of facts and techniques.  
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show the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development. Underpins the idea of spiral curriculum.  
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show a much neglected but essential feature of productive thinking.looked to how teachers and schools might create the conditions for intuition to flourish. Encourage students to use intuition to solve problems  
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Motives for learning (Bruner)   show
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show emphasizes the importance of culture and context in understanding what occurs in society and constructing knowledge based on this understanding (ie learning Hamlet thru group puppet shows)  
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show the process of awareness or thought, act of knowing, obtaining knowledge  
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Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development   show
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show the overseeing and regulation of cognitive processes, awareness of thinking, monitoring what you are learning  
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show "Tell us how you solved that problem", "What was going on in your head when coming up with that answer?" "What was your strategy?", "How else could you have done that?"  
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show active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusions to which it tends  
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show skill of asking self-evaluative questions  
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show Suggestions(possible solution), assessment of difficulty, use of one suggestion after another, mental elaboration of the idea,testing the hypothesis (imaginative action)  
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Boud, Keogh and Walker's stages of reflection (three)   show
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Example of using self-evaluation or reflection to help students in a classroom   show
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show 1. Noticing 2. Making sense and making meaning 3. Working with meaning 4. Transformative learning  
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Stages of reflective learning - student task - Noticing   show
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show 1. Able to demonstrate the meaning of taught material. 2. Able to use taught material in new and concrete situations  
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show Able to break down taught material into its component parts  
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show 1. Able to join taught material to form a whole 2. Able to judge and value material, for its own worth and its greater relevance  
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show chromosomal disorder that includes a combination of birth defects: mental retardation, characteristic facial features, heart defects. caused by extra genetic material from chromosome 21, cell may divide incorrectly, poor folic acid, mother's age  
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Cerebral Palsy -Description -Genetic Influences -Environmental Influences   show
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show mental retardation; learning, emotional and behavioral problems; and defects involving the heart, face and other organs. Caused my mother's consumption of alcohol during preg.  
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show disorder that affects how a child functions in several areas, including speech, social skills and behavior. at least a dozen genes on different chromosomes may contribute. Certain infections that occur before birth such as rubella can contribute  
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show A set of principles that relates social environment to psychological development  
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show According to Erikson, the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.  
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Erikson's Stage 1 of personal & social development (birth - 18 months)   show
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show Autonomy vs. doubt. strive towards the ability to do things for themselves. Desire for power and independence. Have the dual desire to hold on and to let go.  
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Erikson's Stage 3 of personal & social development (3 years - 6 years)   show
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Erikson's Stage 4 of personal & social development (6 years - 12 years)   show
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show Identity vs. Role Confusion. Who am I? Increasingly turn away from parents and toward peer groups. Rapidly changing physiology, coupled with pressures to make decisions about future education and career creates the need to redefine psychosocial identity.  
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show Intimacy vs. Isolation. Sharing of your life with one another. Ready to form new relationships of trust and intimacy w/ another individual.  
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Erikson's Stage 7 of personal & social development (Middle adulthood)   show
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Erikson's Stage 8 of personal & social development (Late adulthood)   show
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show Foreclosure, Identity diffusion, Moratorium, Identity achievement  
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show An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices, not on his or her own.  
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Marcia's Identity Status: Identity Diffusion   show
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Marcia's Identity Status: Moratorium   show
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show A state of consolidation reflecting conscious, clear cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology.  
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Heteronomous morality   show
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show In Piaget's theory of moral development, the stage at which a person understands that people make the rules and that punishments are not automatic.  
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show Level I Preconventional: Stage 1-Punishment & Obedience Stage 2-Instrumental Relativist Level II Conventional: Stage 3-Good boy-Good girl Stage 4-Law & Order Level III Postconventional: level Stage 5- Social contract Stage 6-Universal Ethical Principle  
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Kohlberg's Preconventional Level of Morality   show
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show Stages 3 & 4 of moral reasoning in which individuals make moral judgments in consideration of others.  
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Kohlberg's Postconventional Level of Morality   show
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show Punishment & Obedience: Physical consequences of action determine its goodness or badness. ie. if I get a spanking my behavior was bad.  
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show Instrumental Relativist: What is right is whatever satisfies one's own needs and occasionally the needs of others. ie. children's own desires become important, yet they are aware of the interests of others.  
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show Good Boy - Good Girl: Good behavior is whatever pleases or helps others and is approved of by them. ie. One earns approval by being "nice".  
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Kohlberg's Stage 4 of Moral Reasoning   show
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show Social Contract: What is right is defined in terms of general individual rights and in terms of standards that have been agreed on by the whole society. ie. Laws are not frozen they can be changed for the good of society.  
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show Universal Ethical Principle: What is right is defined by decision of conscience according to self-chosen ethical principles. These principles are abstract and ethical such as the Golden rule not specific like the 10 commandments.  
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Prosocial behavior   show
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show Play that occurs alone.  
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Parallel Play   show
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show Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing, turn-taking and general interest in what others are doing.  
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show Play in which children join together to achieve a common goal.  
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Self-concept   show
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show The value each of us place on our own characteristics, abilities and behaviors.  
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Social Comparison   show
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Three steps to improve the social skills and levels of acceptance of unpopular and rejected children. (interventions)   show
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Reflectivity   show
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Strategies to improve self-esteem   show
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show The influence of needs and desires on the intensity and direction of behavior.  
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show Identifies two types of needs: deficiency needs (physiological, safety, love, esteem) and growth needs (learning, aesthetic, self-actualization). People are motivated to satisfied needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before those at the top.  
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Maslow's deficiency needs   show
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Maslow's growth needs   show
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self-actualization   show
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attribution theory   show
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show A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors.  
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show A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward.  
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show A theory that relates the probability and the incentive values of success to motivation. Motivation (M) = Perceived probability of success (Ps) x Incentive value of success (Is).  
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Achievement Motivation   show
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Learning goals   show
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show The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.  
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Strategy for improving student motivation   show
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Learned helplessness   show
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Intrinsic incentive   show
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show A reward that is external to the activity, such as recognition or a good grade.  
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Is extrinsic or intrinsic more valuable to promoting life long growth and learning   show
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Contingent praise   show
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show Students who are subject to school failure because of their own characteristics and/or because of inadequate responses to their needs by school, family or community.  
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Compensatory education   show
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show Parenting skills, School-Parent communication, Parent Volunteering, Learning at home, Involvement in School decision making, Collaborating with the community.  
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show Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity  
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show Teachers' use of examples, data and other information from a variety of cultures.  
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show Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influenced by our origins and points of view.  
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Prejudice reduction   show
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show Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.  
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Multiple intelligences   show
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Classical Conditioning   show
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show A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response. Meat makes dog salivate. The stimulus in this case would be the meat  
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Unconditioned Response   show
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Neutral stimuli   show
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show A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Dog salivates will bell is rung.  
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Operant Conditioning   show
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show An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.  
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Consequences   show
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show A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.  
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show Food, water, or other consequences that satisfies a basic need.  
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Secondary reinforcer   show
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Positive reinforcer   show
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Negative reinforcer   show
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show AKA. Grandma's Rule. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities. "Eat your vegetables and then you may play."  
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show Behaviors that a person enjoys engaging in for their own sake, without any other reward.  
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show Praise or rewards given to motivate people to engage in behavior that they might not engage in without them.  
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show Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.  
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Presentation punishment   show
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show An unpleasant consequence that a person tries to avoid or escape. ie. spanking or reprimand  
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show Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior, designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will reoccur. ie. having to stay in during recess  
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Time out   show
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show the teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.  
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show The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.  
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show The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.  
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show The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.  
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show Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.  
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Variable-ratio (VR) schedule   show
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Fixed-interval (FI) schedule   show
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show Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded some times but not at others, and we have no idea when a behavior will be reinforced. ie. Random teacher spot checks.Most effective longest lasting effects.  
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show Continuation of behavior.  
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show Events that precede behavior. Holding up your hand to get students' attention is an example. The stimulus that informs students what behaviors will be reinforced.  
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Discrimination   show
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show Carryover of behaviors, skills, or concepts from one setting or task to another. Usually must be planned for. Classroom management program in math can be transferred to English. Students don't always learn this automatically.  
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show Attentional, Retention, Reproduction, and Motivational Phase  
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Social Learning Theory   show
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Behavior Learning Theory   show
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show Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes  
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show Imitation of others' behavior  
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Observational learning   show
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Vicarious Learning   show
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Self-regulation   show
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Cognitive Behavior Modification   show
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Constructivist theories of learning   show
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Cognitive Apprenticeship   show
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Discovery Learning   show
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Top-Down processing   show
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show Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them.  
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show Assisted learning: An approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.  
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Reciprocal Teaching   show
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Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD)   show
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Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC)   show
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show A cooperative learning model in which students are assigned to six member teams to work on academic material that has been broken down into sections for each member.  
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Learning Together   show
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Group Investigation   show
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show A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.  
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means-ends analysis   show
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show A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.  
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Critical thinking   show
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show Incubation-avoid rushing to a solution. Suspension of Judgment- brainstorm. Appropriate Climates- relaxed and positive environment is best. Analysis- analyze specific elements of a problem. Engaging Problems- intriguing questions. Feedback- frequently.  
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show State. Search. Evaluate. Elaborate.  
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show 1. fact vs. claim 2. relevant vs. irrelevant 3. accuracy? 4. credibility of source? 5. ambiguous claims? 6. unstated assumptions? 7. bias? 8. logical fallacies? 9. logical inconsistencies? 10. strength of claim?  
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show Top-Down processing, Drawing pictures, acting out situations, making diagrams, capture student interest w/ demonstrations and exploration, cooperative learning groups to solve complex problems, incentive for group work  
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show Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing, storage and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.  
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show Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time. If you do not process the information it is rapidly lost. ie the song currently playing on the radio or the smell of dinner  
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show A person's interpretation of stimuli. The sensory images of which we are conscious are not exactly the same as what we saw, heard or felt, but what we assume they really are.  
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Attention   show
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short-term or working memory   show
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show Mental repetition of information, which can improve its retention.  
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Long-term memory   show
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show A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experience. "stores episodes"  
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show A part of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge. Most of the things that are learned in class lessons are retained in this type of memory.  
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show A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things.  
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Flashbulb memory   show
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show Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information.  
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Levels of processing theory   show
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show Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better that information coded in only one of those two ways.  
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Automaticity   show
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interference   show
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retroactive inhibition   show
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show decreased ability to learn new information caused by interference from existing knowledge.  
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show increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.  
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show increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.  
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Primary effect   show
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show the tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.  
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show technique in which facts or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time. ie. cramming for a test might help retain the info to get through the test but probably not for long term memory.  
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distributed practice   show
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show a learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks. Hands on learning.  
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Verbal learning   show
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show learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented the other can be recalled. ie. state's capitals, multiplication tables.  
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serial learning   show
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show learning a list of items in any order. ie. name all 50 states.  
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show mental visualizations of images to improve memory  
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show devices or strategies for aiding the memory.  
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show a strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.  
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loci method   show
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pegword method   show
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show strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase  
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show memorization of facts or associations that might be essentially arbitrary.  
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meaningful learning   show
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show learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to artificial applications. usually consists of info we learned in school but failed to apply in life. ie able to pass a french test but not chat in Paris  
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self-questioning strategies   show
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Study strategies requiring students to represent the material in skeletal form (3)   show
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show a study strategy that has students preview, question, read, reflect, recite, and review material.  
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show activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation.  
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show images, concepts or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand  
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elaboration   show
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