9/19b Learning Styles & Adaptations (Integrated Care and Practice)

Question 1

Factors that influence learning

Answer 1

1. behavioral
2. cognitive
3. experiential
4. social/cultural

Question 2

behvioral learning

Answer 2

1. Tools:
   - simplified tasks
   - repetition
   - stimulus to response (classical conditioning)
   - Reward and punishment (operant conditioning)
2. Teacher
   - manipulates the environment
   - reinforces, rewards, punishes
3. External influences drive motivation
   - avoid negative consequences
   - seek reward

Question 3

Cognitive learning - learners goal and the way they process information, not passive

Answer 3

1. focus
   - information processing
   - incorporating new information into existing frameworks
2. teachers
   - present facts
   - assist with assimilation
3. Learners
   - actively constructing knowledge

Question 4

Experiential/problem solving learning

Answer 4

1. Extension of cognitive theory
2. focus
   - context of experience: academic settings, clinical practice
   - active constructive process: problem solving
3. Teachers: Present structured opportunities, act as guides

Question 5

Social-cultural learning - understand how knowledge fits into a deeper context

Answer 5

1. focus - knowledge is co-constructed, cognitive process and social experiences
2. community based
3. peer interactions
4. teacher structures group interactions and guides discussion
5. student
   - observes, associates, models, constructs meaning from the community of practice

Question 6

Factors that impact the way we learn (From Plack and Driscoll)

Answer 6

• perceptions
• gender
• general experiences***
• social role
• culture
• past experiences
• level of expertise
• learning styles***

Question 7

Factors that impact the way we learn (watson and mckinstry)

Answer 7

• Age***
• educational status
• volume of information
• health status
• mode and context of information
• gender
• emotional status
• perceived importance

Question 8

Generational influences

Answer 8

1. Shared characteristics
   - shared history of political and social events
   - shared music/television
   - shared heroes
   - shared trends in parenting styles
   - shared traits
2. Generations
   - traditionalist/silent generation (1925-1942): HEP, give a why; take on an authoritative
   - baby boomers (1943-1960): More shared decision making
   - generation x (1961-1981): Independent, self-directed activies, practical application, demonstrated application
   - generation y/millenials (1982-2002): visual media, active experience, problem solving
   - generation z (after 2002)

Question 9

Age differences on experience

Answer 9

1. adults - bring background and experience, internal motivation/rewards, immediate application, COLLABORATION
2. children - natural curiosity, concrete operations, developing logic, trial and error, assuming little responsibility, external rewards

Question 10

Pedagogy vs androgogy

Answer 10

1. pedagogy - teaching children
2. andragogy - teaching to adults
   ○ Need to know - how, what, why, who
   ○ Independent self concept - ownership
   ○ Experience - background
   ○ Readiness to learn, life centered - most ready to learn
   ○ Motivate to learn - help in tasks and life situations

Question 11

Different learning styles

Answer 11

the way you take in and process information

1. visual
2. auditory
3. tactile/kinematic

Question 12

Fixed vs growth mindset in response to:

1. challenges
2. effort
3. feedback
4. success of others

Answer 12

1. challenges: fixed is afraid, growth takes them on
2. effort: fixed is afraid, growth takes them on
3. feedback: fixed is afraid, growth takes them on
4. success of others: fixed is afraid, growth takes them on

Question 13

Kolb’s chart

Answer 13

Concrete experience (feeling) - gathering
Reflective observation (watching) - processing
Abstract conceptualization (thinking) - information
Active Experimentation (doing) - information

Question 14

how does your personal style affect your teaching style?

Answer 14

you want to appeal to the patient’s personal style to teach them that way

Question 15

Learning domains

Answer 15

1. cognitive - knowledge
2. psychomotor
3. afferent - relational
   teach in the domain that you want the learning to happen in

Question 16

navigator

Answer 16

spell it out and give a process on a piece of paper, lay out the progression of steps

Question 17

problem solver

Answer 17

allow patient to answer questions and test out things, ask them open ended questions and let them figure it out with some guidance

Question 18

Engager

Answer 18

get them involved with the process and do it interactively