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Question 1

What is Behaviorism?

Answer 1

Explains animal and human behavior entirely in terms of observable and measurable responses to stimuli
-“carrot and stick approach to learning”

Question 2

What are the two major branches of cognitive theory?

Answer 2

Information processing model

Constructivism

Question 3

What is the information processing theory?

Answer 3

Human brain is like a computer, is gets inputs from its senses

Question 4

What is constructivism?

Answer 4

Learners do not acquire knowledge and skills passively, but actively build or construct them based on their experiences

Question 5

MUC?

Answer 5

• Memorization
• Understanding- beginning to organize knowledge in useful ways
• Concept learning- the grouping of information into concepts, creating manageable categories

Question 6

What are the domains of learning?

Answer 6

CAP
Cognitive
Affective (learners emotions)
Psychomotor (skill-based/physical movement)

Question 7

What are the characteristics of learning?

Answer 7

PRMA
Learning is:
-Purposeful - each student has specific intentions and goals
-Result of experience- (learning by doing)
-Multifaceted- the learning process may include verbal, conceptual, perceptual, emotional, and problem solving elements all taking place at once
-Active process