Human Behavior Flashcards
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Physiological Needs Safety and Security Love and Belongingness Self-Esteem Self-Actualization
Defense Mechanisms
Repression Denial Compensation Projection Rationalization Reaction Formation Fantasy Displacement
Normal Reactions to Stress
Heart quickens
Respond rapidly and exactly within limits
Abnormal Reactions to Stress
Extreme overcooperation
Inappropriate laughter or singing
Rapid changes in emotions
Behaviorism (Learning Theory)
- Based on observable and measurable responses to stimuli
- System of rewards and punishments
Cognitive Learning Theory
-Looks at what is going on in the brain
Higher Order Thinking Skills (ADM)
- Analysis
- Synthesis
- Evaluation
Perceptions
- All learning starts from perceptions
- Sight 75%, Hearing 13%
- Person must give meaning to sensations
Factors Affecting Perception
- Physical Organism
- Goals and Values
- Self Concept
- Time and Opportunity
- Element of Threat
Insights
- grouping of perceptions into meaningful whiles
- proper instruction speeds this process
- anchors down material learned
Levels of Learning
Rote- ability to repeat back
Understanding-how or why
Application-ability to apply what student understands
Correlation-apply learning to new and different situations
Laws of Learning
REEPIR
- Readiness
- Exercise
- Effect
- Primacy
- Intensity
- Recency
Domains of Learning
- Cognitive (thinking)
- Affective (feeling)
- Psycomotor (doing)
Characteristics of Learning
- purposeful
- result from experience
- multifaceted
- active process
Acquiring Skill Knowledge
- cognitive (factual knowledge)
- associative (practice)
- automatic response (byproduct of practice)