Learning to be a Better Stupident Flashcards
The relatively permanent change in behavior brought about because of experience or practice.
Learning
A process that leads to change, which occurs as a result of experience and increases the potential for improved performance and future learning” (Ambrose et al, 2010, p.3).
Learning
__________ is the ability of the brain to adapt to changes in an individual’s environment by forming new neural connections over time.
Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity is sometimes referred to as __________.
Brain plasticity
TRUE OR FALSE:
Aspects of our brains are “plastic,” meaning they are adaptive and can be altered in response to environmental and/or structural changes.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE:
Younger people change easily; their brains are very plastic. As we age change doesn’t come as easily; the brain loses some of its plasticity and we become more fixed in how we think, learn, and perceive.
TRUE
A three-pound organ that controls all functions of the body, interprets information from the outside world.
Brain
It is most important in learning since this is where higher-ordered functions like memory and reasoning occur.
Cerebrum
The most highly developed part of the human brain and is responsible for thinking, perceiving, producing, and understanding language.
Cerebrum
Most information processing occurs in the __________.
Cerebral cortex
The large, outer part of the brain, controls reading, thinking, learning, speech, emotions, and planned muscle movements like walking. It also controls vision, hearing and other senses.
Cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is divided into four lobes that each have a specific function. These lobes include:
Frontal lobes
Parietal lobes
Temporal lobes
Occipital lobes
The ___________ is a
complex brain structure embedded deep into temporal lobe. It has a major role in learning and memory.
Hippocampus
The ___________ helps to store memories of events and emotions so that an individual may be able to recognize similar events in the future.
Amygdala
4 Factors that Affect the Learning Process:
Motivation
Intellectual Ability
Attention Span
Prior Knowledge
Abraham Maslow’s four (4) stages of learning are:
Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious Competence
In this stage, the learner does not have a skill or knowledge set yet. They do not see any reason to learn it because they do not consider it a need.
Unconscious Incompetence
The learner is aware of the skill that they lack and can understand that there is a deficit. The learner wants to learn because they are aware of their lack of knowledge and it makes them uneasy.
Conscious Incompetence
This stage takes place when a learner has acquired a skill but has not yet mastered it to the point where it comes naturally.
Conscious Competence
The stage that encompasses just that: you know it so well you do not even realize you are doing it. The skill is so embedded that the learner does not even need to process what they are doing.
Unconscious Competence
__________ is the ability to examine how you process thoughts and feelings.
Metacognition
Metacognition was introduced as a concept in by_____________, who is typically seen as a founding scholar of the field.
John Flavell (1979)
It includes knowledge of one’s own cognitive abilities, knowledge of cognitive tasks, and knowledge of the strategies to complete the cognitive tasks.
Metacognitive knowledge
It refers to how an individual monitors and controls his or her cognitive processes.
Metacognitive regulation
_____________ describes a process in which individuals take the initiative, with or without the help of others, in diagnosing their learning needs, formulating learning goals, identifying human and material resources for learning, choosing and implementing appropriate learning.
Self-directed learning
__________ suggest that “to become self-directed learners, students must learn to assess the demands of the task, evaluate their own knowledge and skills, plan their approach, monitor their progress, and adjust their strategies as needed” (p. 191), and decades of research has identified these behaviors as predictors of academic success at all grade levels (e.g., Pintrich & DeGroot, 1990; Young & Fry, 2012).
Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, Lovett, and Norman (2010)
The basic building blocks of the nervous system that transmits impulses or messages.
Neurons
True or False:
The impulses that travel along neurons are electrochemical in nature (neurotransmitters).
True
Chemical messengers that our
body can’t function without.
Neurotransmitters
True or False:
Although the brain continues to grow and develop throughout one’s life the overall number of neurons and synapses declines with age.
True
Knowledge about one’s self as a learner and what can influence one’s performance.
Declarative Knowledge
Knowledge about how to do things.
Procedural Knowledge
Knowledge about when and in what conditions certain knowledge is useful.
Conditional Knowledge
