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LRE

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Least restrictive environment that can reasonably meet ones needs in the classroom

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Distributed intelligence

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Idea that people are more likely to be intelligent when they have assistance from their environment and technology

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Inclusion

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Practice of educating all students even those with disabilities in general education classrooms

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IEP

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Individualized education plan for 3-21 who have special needs

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Accommodations and adaptation of instruction with regard to specific categories of needs

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Instructional strategies for students with learning disabilities must be tailored to specific strengths and weaknesses

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Construction/constructivism

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Suggest that people combine much of what they learn into integrated bodies of knowledge and beliefs that may or may not be accurate

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Encoding

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Changing the format of new info as it being stored in memory

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Storage

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Process of putting new info into memory

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Retrieval

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Process of finding information previously stored in memory

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Human memory system

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Sensory register

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Component of memory that holds info and input you receive in its original uncoded form

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Working memory

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Holds and actively thinks about processes a limited amount of info for short period of time

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Long term memory

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Where learners store their general knowledge and beliefs about the world and their recollections of events, and how to perform tasks

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Central executive

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Oversees the flow of information throughout the memory system

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Declarative knowledge

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Relates to the nature of how things are were or will be and encompasses both general world knowledge and life experiences

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Procedural knowledge

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Knowledge of how to perform tasks

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Conditional knowledge

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Knowing How to respond under different circumstances and when to do certain things

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Explicit knowledge

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Knowledge that can be verbally described

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Implicit knowledge

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Knowledge that a person cannot consciously recall or explain but nevertheless effects their thinking or behavior

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Rote learning

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Learning info in uninterpreted form without making sense of it or attaching meaning to it

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Rehearsal

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Rapid repetition of a small amount of info to keep it fresh in working memory

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Meaningful learning

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Learners relate new information to things they already know

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Elaboration

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Learners embellish on new info based on previous knowledge

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Organization

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Making connections among various pieces of info by forming categories or determining cause and effect relationships

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Prior knowledge activation

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Process of reminding learners of things they already know that is relative to the new topic at hand

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Meaningful learning set

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Attitude that one can make sense of information they’re trying to learn

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Mnemonic techniques

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Memory aid or trick to help learn and remember specific pieces of info

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Situated learning

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Knowledge behaviors and thinking skills acquired and used primarily within certain contexts, with limited or no retrieval and use in other contexts

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Hot cognition

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Learning or processing that is emotionally charged

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Recognition vs recall tasks

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Recognition provides retrieval cues while recall does not and is open ended

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Interference

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Something stored in long term memory inhibits ones ability to remember something else correctly

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Reconstruction error

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Construction of logical but incorrect memory by combining info retrieved from long term memory with ones general knowledge and beliefs about the world

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Individual constructivism

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Perspective that focuses on how individuals construct meaning from their experiences

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Social constructivism

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Perspective that focuses on people’s collective efforts to impose meaning on the world

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Distributed cognition

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Processes where learners think about an issue or problem together and share ideas to draw conclusions or come up with solutions

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Under generalization of concepts

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Overly narrow view of the objects or events that a concept includes

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Over generalization of concepts

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Overly broad view of the objects or events a concept includes

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Schema

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Tightly organized set of facts about a specific topic

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Script

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Schema that involves a predictable sequence of events related to a common activity

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Worldview

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General set of beliefs and assumptions about reality, how things are and should be, that influence a learners understanding of phenomena

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Conceptual understanding

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Meaningfully learned and well integrated knowledge about a topic, including many logical connections among ideas and concepts

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Authentic activity

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Classroom activity that is similar to something students would encounter in the outside world

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Project based learning

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Classroom activity where students acquire new knowledge and skills while working on a complex but concrete project

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Problem based learning

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Classroom activity in which students squire new knowledge and skills while working on complex problem similar to one that might exist in the outside world

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Service learning

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Activity that promotes learning and development through contributing to the betterment of others and the outside community

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Community of learners

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Class in which teachers and students collaboratively work together to create a body of knowledge and help each other learn

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Confirmation bias

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Tendency to seek information that confirms rather than discredits current beliefs

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Lower level thinking

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Learning or remembering in the same form in which they were presented

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Higher level thinking

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Involves going above and beyond material presented

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Meta cognition

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Knowledge and beliefs about nature of learning and cognitive processes

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Learning strategies

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Using a specific approach to learn material

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Comprehension monitoring

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Process of checking oneself to verify understanding and memory of newly acquired information

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Illusion of knowing

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Thinking that you know something when you actually don’t

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Epistemic belief

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Belief about the nature of knowledge and how things are learned

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Positive transfer

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Something learned at one time facilitates learning or performance at a later time

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Negative transfer

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Something learned at one time

Interferes with learning or performance at a later time

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Specific transfer

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Original learning task and the transfer task overlap in content

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General transfer

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Original learning task and transfer task are different in content

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Convergent thinking

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Process of pulling together several pieces of information to draw a conclusion or solve a problem

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Divergent thinking

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Process of moving mentally in a variety of directions from a single idea

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Critical thinking

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Process of evaluating the accuracy and worth of information

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Higher level questions

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Requires students to use previously learned information in a new way

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Learning is a change due to _________

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Experience

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Information processing theory

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Focuses on specific ways in which learners mentally thinking about and process new information

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Piaget and learning

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Children construct rather than absorb knowledge and organize what they learn a schemes, a result of assimilation and accommodation

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Vygotsky and learning

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Social and cultural contexts have profound influence on children’s thinking and learning, and social interactions are internalized into mental processes that learners use independently

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The sensory register has what type of capacity?

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Large, it can hold a lot of info at once

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What moves into working memory?

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Whatever someone mentally pays attention to

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Construction

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Mental process whereby learner takes many separate pieces of info and uses them to build an overall understanding

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Overt strategy

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Readily apparent in learners behavior, like taking notes

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Covert strategy

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Involves only mental activity and isn’t reflected in learners observable behavior, like forming visual image of new concept

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Self explanation

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Process of occasionally stopping to verbalize to oneself and better understand material being studied or read

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