Lecture 1- Intro to Learning Flashcards
What is learning?
Experience, Learning, Change in behaviour
Truth and Knowledge to be found within us
a) Rationalism
b) Empiricism
a) Rationalism
Truth and Knowledge is to be found outside of ourselves by using our senses
a) Rationalism
b) Empiricism
b) Empircism
-rationalist
-knowledge and truth discovered by self-reflection
Plato
-empiricist
-sense to look for truth and knowledge in the world outside of him
Aristotle
-dialectic method of discovering truth
-through conversations with fellow citizens
Socrates
Roman Catholic Church
-expectation of god
-rote memorization and recitation
-university
-access to knowledge changed, needed to be apart of an organization
Renaissance
-needed to have an education that was well rounded (art, math, history, physics)
-comprenhsive view of the world
Copernicus
Scientist-that questioned what if the earth is the centre of the universe
Question everything
-encouraged us to ask questions bc things have the capacity to change
Martin Luther
Question everything
-relgious questioned teachings of the church
“The only habit which the child should be allowed to form is to contract no habit whatsoever”
a) Immanuel Kant
b) Vygotsky
c) John Locke
d) Copernicus
c) John Locke
Revived the Platonic Concept of Innate Knowledge
a) John Locke
b) Rene Descartes
c) Immanuel Kant
d) Martin Luther
b) rene Descartes
-internal working of the body
-moved our attention to inside the body
REFLEX- change in envirnment and internally something happens to produce an output
who is Descartes
rene Descartes
-internal working of the body
-moved our attention to inside the body
REFLEX- change in envirnment and internally something happens to produce an output
“Let us supposed the mind to be, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas”
a) Thorndike
b) Descarte
c) Locke
d) Plato
c) Locke
Tabula Rasa
John Locke
-blank slate: our experiences define who we become
Refined an modernized Plato’s rationalist theory with ‘Priori’ knowledge
Knowledge Present before birth
a) Immanuel Kant
b) John Locke
c) Rene Descartes
d) Copernicus
a) Immanuel Kant
First Modern psychologist who sought to bring the Scientific approach to the study of learning
a) Rene Descarte
b) Edward Thorndike
c) Ivan Pavlov
d) Burrhus Skinner
b) Thorndike
-important in making psych considered a science
-he did this by adopting a method by which you are collecting data
-research question, hypothesis, generating data, does data support research question
Response Rate
Skinner
Progressive Approximation
Skinner
“How can reinforcements be most effectively scheduled to maintain the behaviour strength”
Skinner
First to state learning is a developmental cognitive process
Jean Piaget
Must consider the age of the subject/type of information (education system must keep this in mind through levels of education)
Jean Piaget
“envisage a balance being struck, varying from subject to subject, between different parts to be played by memorizing and free activity”
A) Vygotsky
B) Maria Montessori
C) John Dewey
D) Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
the idea that all learning occurs in a cultural context and involves social interactions
a) Vygotsky
b) Piaget
c) Dewey
d) Montessori
a) Vygotsky
Mentors are instrumental in learning
a) Vygotsky
b) Piaget
c) Dewey
d) Montessori
A) Vygotsky
Education should not be separated from life itself, education should be child-centred, guided by a well trained teacher who is grounded in pedagogical and subject knowledge
a) Vygotsky
b) Piaget
c) Dewey
d) Montessori
c) Dewey
The teacher loses the position of external boss or director but takes on that of leader of group activities
a) Vygotsky
b) Piaget
c) Dewey
d) Montessori
c) Dewey
-decrease power hiearchy and power differientals so students feel more comfrontable
The takes of teacher becomes that of preparing a series of cultural activities spread over specially prepared environment and then refraining from obtrusive interference
a) Vygotsky
b) Piaget
c) Dewey
d) Montessori
d) Montessori
