What theory is premised upon stimulus, response, and reinforcement (positive or negative)?
Behavioral Learning Theory
What theory states that learning is happening when students are able to distinguish among stimuli and provide the appropriate responses to each stimulus?
Behavioral Learning Theory
What are the advantages to the behavioral learning theory?
- allows for observable and overt measurements of the desired behavior/response
- quick way to achieve the desired response in students
- allows for military and technical training instructors to expediently deliver focused training and weed out students who are not able to perform to standards
What are the disadvantages of the learning behavior theory?
- encourages rote learning (memorization, no application)
- students can falsely exhibit the desired behavior once they figure out what the instructor is looking for
- students may also not be able to explain what is learned at a later time
What theory focuses on what is going on in the student's mind and places emphasis on how the student thinks is very important?
Cognitive Learning Theory
What theory looks at how the student is receiving and has chosen to remember information?
Cognitive Learning Theory
What major cognitive learning theory model focuses on the way knowledge is perceived, stored, and retrieved from memory?
Information Processing
What major cognitive learning theory model says learning and consequent changes in behavior take place as a result of the interaction between the learner and the environment?
Social Interaction
What are the advantages of the cognitive learning theory?
- assesses the student's mental processing
- concerned with how students figure out the importance of information and its link to information they already know
- actively links the student with the learning environment
What are the disadvantages of the cognitive learning theory?
- assumes learning is external to the student and, as a result, the student has no influence on the learning
- student is only a receptacle for the knowledge
What learning model involves instructors caring about the attitudes of their students?
Affective Learning
What are the four elements of writing and measuring objectives for student attitude development that should be of concern to the instructor?
1. clarifying what is meant by the term attitude (or affect)
2. writing attitude development objectives
3. measuring student attitudes
4. designing a curriculum to develop attitudes in a desired direction
What are among the many schools and courses that successfully develop attitudes?
BMT, OTS, pilot training, survival training, and virtually all safety courses
Which affective taxonomy level is to get the students to receive - to pay attention or listen to the presentation (willing attention is a logical follow-on to awareness)?
Receiving
Which affective taxonomy level is where students must do more than simply listen to a message (involves some sort of action or response on the part of the student)?
Responding
Which affective taxonomy level involves a person's response containing worth or value seen in what's done?
Valuing
Which affective taxonomy level is when students accept, prefer, or commit to an object or activity because of its perceived worth or value?
Valuing
Which affective taxonomy level consists of students comparing, relating, and synthesizing values into their own value system?
Organization
Which affective taxonomy level is where the student incorporates values into a system and that system now becomes characteristics of the student?
Characterization
(T/F) The behavioral theory of learning states that learning occurs when a student forms an association between a stimulus and the desired response/behavior.
True
(T/F) The behavioral theory of learning is premised upon stimulus, response, and punishment.
False
(T/F) An advantage of behavioral learning is that it encourages rote learning.
False
(T/F) The cognitive theory of learning focuses on what is going on in the student’s mind.
True
(T/F) The cognitive theory of learning has two major models: information processing and social interaction.
True
(T/F) The social interaction model says learning and consequent changes in behavior take place as a result of the interaction between the learner and the environment.
True
(T/F) Whether we plan to or not, much of what we do as instructors affects the attitudes of our students.
True
(T/F) Receiving involves some sort of action or response on the part of the student in affective learning.
False
What intellectual skill is related to seeing differences in stimuli?
Discrimination
Where do most discrimination (intellectual skill) problems come from for adults?
Physical disabilities such as color blindness, hearing loss, or some injury that affects sensory perception
What intellectual skill are related to categorizing physical objects into one or more classes based on their physical attributes?
Concrete concepts
What intellectual skill are related to classifying symbolic objects into one or more classes based on a definition (definition is actually a rule for classification)?
Defined concepts
What intellectual skill relates to applying principles or procedures to solve problems?
Rule learning
What intellectual skill is the ability to recall relevant rules and use them to solve a novel problem?
Rule learning
What is the learning of names and labels that can be verbalized (also called declarative knowledge)?
Verbal information
What type of learning requires some basic language skills?
Verbal information
What is more readily retained when it is learned within a larger context of meaningful information?
Verbal information
What is the basic premise of an information processing model where individuals mentally process their environment?
Cognitive strategies
What process consists of a number of stages in which the stimuli become information, which is given meaning by previous knowledge and current expectations?
Cognitive strategies
What are employed to maintain the knowledge in short-term memory and translate it to a structure that enters long-term memory?
Cognitive strategies
What are learned behaviors that involve the smooth coordinated use of muscles?
Motor skills
What skills most often involve a sequence of activities that may be described verbally as an "executive subroutine"?
Motor skills
When the learner has acquired this type of skill, the verbal routine is no longer need and the skill is performed in a smooth and continuous manner?
Motor skills
What requires practice and kinesthetic (natural) feedback?
Motor skills
What may require the prior learning of intellectual skills or particular sets of information?
Acquiring of particular attitudes
What have mutually supportive relationships?
Attitudes
What are learned or influenced by observing others and viewing the consequences of their behavior [this type of learning (vicarious) is a distinct principle of social learning]?
Attitudes
What is a method of using traditional and non-traditional techniques to increase instructor and student motivation?
Accelerated learning
In what environment are students and instructors tending to be more creative, motivated, team-oriented, and willing to try different things?
Accelerated learning environment?
What can be adjusted and controlled during accelerated learning to enhance learning?
Lighting, temperature, decorations, and seating arrangements
The foundation for all higher learning.
Intellectual Skills
Focuses on interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
Accelerated Learning
Behaviors that involve the smooth coordinated use of muscles.
Motor Skills
Clustering of items of similar groups to reduce memory load.
Cognitive Strategies
Learned or influenced by observing others and viewing the consequences of their behavior.
Attitudes and Motivation
Requires the learning of names and labels.
Verbal Information
Lighting, temperature, and seating should be adjusted to enhance learning.
Accelerated Learning
Employed to maintain knowledge in short-term memory and translate it into a structure that enters long-term memory.
Cognitive Strategies
Much of the instruction is aimed at getting the student to recognize the feel when the performance is executed correctly.
Motor Skills
Concrete concepts are skills related to categorizing physical objects into one or more classes based on their physical attributes.
Intellectual Skills
What are general rules or principles which help explain factors affecting learning and are applicable to all age groups, particularly to adult learners?
Laws of Learning
What law of learning states students are best when they are prepared to learn and the student will not see the value in learning if they do not see the rationale behind the lesson?
Law of Readiness
Which law of learning states the instructor is responsible for preparing and creating the desire in students to learn along with providing them a clear statement of the objective and a solid motivation during the lesson introduction?
Law of Readiness
Which law of learning states outside distractions, such as job demands, family issues, medical and financial responsibilities will interfere with the student's ability to focus and learn the material?
Law of Readiness
Which law of learning is based on the premise that things that are repetitive in nature are easily remembered?
Law of Exercise
Which law of learning should include recall, review, restatement, and drill?
Law of Exercise
Which law of learning focuses on the premise that learning can be strengthened or weakened based on the students' experiences in the classroom?
Law of Effect
Which law of learning involves instructors creating a positive learning environment and building lessons that will allow the student to have a sense of accomplishment?
Law of Effect
Which law of learning involves instructors making sure what they teach and how they teach is done correctly the first time?
Law of Primacy
Which law of learning is where the learning experience should be positive and correct from the beginning, and this will create the solid ground work for all that follows?
Law of Primacy
Which law of learning states students can be stimulated to learn by involving them in realistic situations rather than the usual dull routine?
Law of Intensity
Which law of learning requires the instructors to think outside of the box and be creative in the classroom?
Law of Intensity
Which law of learning states instructional objectives that were more recently taught by the instructor will be much easier to remember by the student than the objectives taught days or weeks prior?
Law of Recency
Which law of learning states a good summary will include a restatement of the instructional objective, reemphasize important elements of the lesson, and review the main points the students’ needs to remember?
Law of Recency
Basis of recall and drill.
Law of Exercise
A student learns best when they are prepared to learn.
Law of Readiness
Things that are repetitive are easily remembered.
Law of Exercise
Providing a student with a clear statement of the objective.
Law of Readiness
Involving the student in realistic situations.
Law of Intensity
Learning strengthened or weakened based on student experiences in the classroom.
Law of Effect
Teaching correctly the first time.
Primacy
Things most currently learned are best remembered.
Law of Recency
A student’s chance of success increases if the learning experience is pleasant.
Law of Effect
At the end of the lesson, the instructor restates the objective and emphasizes the main points of the lesson.
Law of Recency
Which developmental approach characteristic should be used each day and in each lesson of the course to give the students a clear picture of the activities ahead?
Whole-Part-Whole
Which developmental approach characteristic can be used to describe an entire course or block of instruction along with applying it to each main point in the body of the lesson?
Whole-Part-Whole
How is the Whole-Part-Whole developmental approach characteristic related to learning?
Whole - Law of Readiness
Part - Law of Exercise
Whole - Law of Recency
Which developmental approach characteristic recognizes the student's need to progress in an orderly fashion from their current knowledge or skill, relating each new idea to be learned to their experiences?
Known-to-Unknown
What are the steps for the Known-to-Unknown developmental approach characteristic?
1. Determine what students know
2. Guide the students in logical steps toward the desired objective
3. Progress from simple to complex
Which developmental approach characteristic requires each lesson organized and presented in a meaningful sequence so that each part helps the student learn what is to follow?
Known-to-Unknown
Which developmental approach characteristic motivates the students to discuss, think, experiment, and act while also being realistic and simulate actual situations?
Problem-Oriented
During this developmental approach characteristic, give the students every opportunity to think and develop a solution (the key is participation)?
Problem-Oriented
Which developmental approach characteristic has the entire curriculum based on job requirements?
Student-Centered
Which developmental approach characteristic requires the instructor to plan and present each day's objective clearly so the students understand them and understand their relationship to the overall course (emphasis should be on students learning by doing)?
Student-Centered
Which developmental approach characteristic states differences along with countless other psychological, emotional, and physical factors cause students to learn at different rates?
Student-Centered
Which development approach element is the driving force that causes a person to spring into action and move toward a definite goal or objective?
Motivation
Which development approach element is the instructor required to continually create a desire to learn?
Motivation
Which development approach element is where instructors must plan the motivational activities to the needs of the students, prepare ways to keep them actively involved in the lesson, and must be continuous throughout the lesson?
Motivation
Which development approach element is a means to initiate and sustain the learning process by explaining how something works or by clarifying ideas?
Explanation
Which development approach element is necessary in guiding student learning?
Explanation
Which development approach element should be based on the whole-part-whole characteristic to be effective?
Explanation
Which development approach element states each new idea should relate to a previous idea and logically lead the student to the next idea (known-to-unknown)?
Explanation
Which development approach element (in a lecture) is a form of verbal support which adds more meaning to the lesson?
Explanation
Which development approach element should be planned carefully for the demonstration method?
Explanation
Which development approach element's purpose is to give the students an opportunity to apply (practice) the directions and explanations they have received to an actual or simulated situation?
Application
Which development approach element is where students may apply their knowledge mentally or physically at differing levels or degrees of understanding?
Application
Which development approach element is where providing experiences that are meaningful, varied, and appropriate is a problem for all instructors?
Application
Which development approach element's application of experiences should challenge the student and require involvement with feelings, thoughts, and physical activity?
Application
Which development approach element is constantly used to determine student achievement of the goals?
Evaluation
Which development approach element uses written and performance tests to evaluate student achievement?
Evaluation
Which development approach element contributes to learning by reinforcing correct responses and shows an increase in motivation when an individual shows progress?
Evaluation
Which development approach element provides important feedback to the instructor?