Lecture 1- Intro to Learning Flashcards

1
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What is learning?

A

Experience, Learning, Change in behaviour

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2
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Truth and Knowledge to be found within us
a) Rationalism
b) Empiricism

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a) Rationalism

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3
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Truth and Knowledge is to be found outside of ourselves by using our senses
a) Rationalism
b) Empiricism

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b) Empircism

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4
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-rationalist
-knowledge and truth discovered by self-reflection

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Plato

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5
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-empiricist
-sense to look for truth and knowledge in the world outside of him

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Aristotle

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6
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-dialectic method of discovering truth
-through conversations with fellow citizens

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Socrates

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7
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Roman Catholic Church

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-expectation of god
-rote memorization and recitation
-university
-access to knowledge changed, needed to be apart of an organization

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8
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Renaissance

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-needed to have an education that was well rounded (art, math, history, physics)
-comprenhsive view of the world

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9
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Copernicus

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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

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10
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Martin Luther

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Question everything
-relgious questioned teachings of the church

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11
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“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

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c) John Locke

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12
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Revived the Platonic Concept of Innate Knowledge
a) John Locke
b) Rene Descartes
c) Immanuel Kant
d) Martin Luther

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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

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13
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who is Descartes

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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

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14
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“Let us supposed the mind to be, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas”
a) Thorndike
b) Descarte
c) Locke
d) Plato

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c) Locke

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15
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Tabula Rasa

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John Locke
-blank slate: our experiences define who we become

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16
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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

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a) Immanuel Kant

17
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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

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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

18
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Response Rate

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Skinner

19
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Progressive Approximation

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Skinner

20
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“How can reinforcements be most effectively scheduled to maintain the behaviour strength”

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Skinner

21
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First to state learning is a developmental cognitive process

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Jean Piaget

22
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Must consider the age of the subject/type of information (education system must keep this in mind through levels of education)

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Jean Piaget

23
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“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

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Jean Piaget

24
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the idea that all learning occurs in a cultural context and involves social interactions
a) Vygotsky
b) Piaget
c) Dewey
d) Montessori

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a) Vygotsky

25
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Mentors are instrumental in learning
a) Vygotsky
b) Piaget
c) Dewey
d) Montessori

A

A) Vygotsky

26
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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

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c) Dewey

27
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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

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c) Dewey
-decrease power hiearchy and power differientals so students feel more comfrontable

28
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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

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d) Montessori