Lesson 4 Flashcards
What is cognition?
The complex array of mental processes involved in remembering, perceiving, and thinking
Cognition influences behavior and vice versa, forming a bi-directional connection.
What are the three main functions of memory?
- Sensory Memory
- Short-Term Memory
- Long-Term Memory
Define sensory memory.
The level that allows information from the external environment to be perceived through senses
Often involves chemical and physical stimuli.
What is short-term memory?
A temporary storage area for information, lasting from 10 to 15 seconds up to one minute
Can hold 5-9 items before information is discarded.
What characterizes long-term memory?
Information stored permanently with the ability for repeated retrievals
Requires deliberate effort for storage.
How is intelligence defined?
The capacity for understanding, learning, planning, and problem solving
Involves logic, creativity, and self-awareness.
List Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence categories.
- Visual Spatial
- Linguistic Verbal
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal
- Logical Mathematical
- Musical
- Bodily Kinesthetic
- Naturalistic
What are the components of Robert Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence?
- Practical
- Creative
- Analytical
Identify the typology of people based on Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory.
- Analyzer
- Creator
- Practitioner
- Analytical Creator
- Analytical Practitioner
- Creative Practitioner
- Consummate Balancer
What is the definition of learning?
A relatively permanent change in a person’s knowledge or behavior due to experience
Involves long-term change and personal experiences.
What are the four stages of observational learning according to social cognitive theory?
- Attention
- Retention
- Motor Reproduction
- Motivation
True or False: Learning only occurs in formal educational settings.
False
Learning happens in daily situations.
What is self-efficacy?
The extent to which people believe they can confidently learn and master a skill
Developed through mastery experience, social modeling, and other factors.
What are the four core features of human agency according to Bandura?
- Intentionality
- Forethought
- Self-reactiveness
- Self-reflectiveness
Fill in the blank: _______ emphasizes that people create intentions to achieve their goals.
Intentionality
What are the two strategies in learning that students can use?
- Surface Learning
- Deep Learning
What does surface learning involve?
Accepting and memorizing information in an isolated manner
Lacks meaningful connections.
What habits can students adopt to engage in deep learning?
- Taking notes
- Asking questions
- Creating cognitive maps
- Engaging in collaborative activities
- Going beyond course requirements
