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CLEP Educational Psychology Theorists And Theories

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1. Humanistic; Transformational Learning






2. (Thorndike)- the idea that bonds between stimulus and response are strengthened by recency - frequency - and contiguity.






3. Operant Conditioning






4. Variables being observed and measured in response to the independent variables - such as amount of time taken to learn a task or respond after a stimulus is given - number of responses - etc.






5. Contiguity Theory; 'One-Trial Learning' (Behaviorism)






6. A transitional group - bridging the gap between behaviorism and cognitive theories of learning. timulus-Response; Intervening Internal Variables; Purposive Behavior; E.C.Tolman - Clark Hull - Kenneth W. Spence






7. (Brown - Cognitive apprenticeship)- knowledge which lacks application or cross contextual understanding.






8. Psychoanalytic Theory of Learning; The role of the Unconscious Mind in Learning






9. (Thorndike) - Responses which occur just prior to a satisfying state of affairs are more likely to be repeated - and responses just prior to an annoying state of affairs are more likely NOT to be repeated.






10. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'






11. Multiple intelligence theory specifies seven different intelligences that presume a broadened definition of intelligence.






12. Constructivist; Genetic Epistemology; Stages of Cognitive Development






13. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.






14. (Thorndike)- the idea that bonds between stimulus and response take the form of neural connections. Learning involves the 'stamping in' of connections - forgetting involves 'stamping out' connections.






15. Social Constructivism; The Zone of Proximal Development is a concept for which he is well known.






16. Theory of Classical Conditioning






17. Emotions and Affect Play a Role in Learning






18. (Estes) - A theory developed by Estes that attempts to show how stimuli are sampled and attached to responses. A statistical learning theory.






19. Constructivist; published The Process of Education; theories emphasize the significance of categorization in learning






20. Occurs when the presence of previously learned material interferes with the learning of new material.






21. (Hull)- the notion that behavior occurs in reponse to 'drives' such as hunger - thirst - sexual interest - feeling cold - etc. When the goal of the drive is attained (food - water - mating - warmth) the drive is reduced - and this constitutes reinfor






22. The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished






23. 1925 - Observational Learning






24. Follower of Jean Piaget. Developed and researched advanced organizers. Developed subsumation theorty - that the primary process in learning is subsumation where new material is relation to relevant ideas in the existing cognitive structure in a subst






25. Four stage theory of cognitive development: 1. sensorimotor - 2. preoperational - 3. concrete operational - and 4. formal operational. He said that the two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth-assimilation and accomodation






26. Development; Concepts: gender in moral development; Study Basics: Did moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relations






27. Drive Reduction Theory






28. Knowledge is Constructed; the Learner is an Active Creator






29. Presented a theory of self-efficacy - or the importance of one's personal belief regarding self-ability and chances of success - as key to motivation.






30. Gestalt Theory






31. Cognitive Apprenticeship






32. A theory that psychology is essentially a study of external human behavior rather than internal consciousness and desires.






33. Structure of intellect stipulated that intelligence depends on our mental operations (or process of thinking) - our thoughts (i.e. - content) - and the products or end results of these operations.






34. Cognitive Dissonance






35. Gestalt Learning Theory






36. Albert Bandura - 1. Attention - the learner must have his/her senses directed at the model 2. Retention - coding - and storing the patterns so they can be retrieved. This may include vivid imagery an verbal descriptions. 3. Motor reproduction - kines






37. Perception - Decision making - Attention - Memory - & Problem Solving






38. Freud's theory which emphasized that how parents manage their child's sexual and aggressive drives in he first few years is crucial for healthy personality development






39. (Tolman)- the theory that animals (and humans) develop expectancy or anticipation of rewards for completing behaviors they have learned - and this expectancy functions as an internal incentive or motivation.






40. (G. A. Miller)- (Test - Operate - Test - Exit). These are operational feedback units that function within a self-regulated system.

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41. Emphasizes how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development - Developed the idea of the 'Zone of Proximal Development -' mainly focused on cognitive development of children.






42. Refers to one's belief about one's ability to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes. Those with high levels for a particular task are more likely to succeed than those with low levels






43. (Piaget) - an element of a cognitive structure. Schema refers to a general potential to perform a class of behaviors - and content describes the conditions that prevail during any particular example of that potential being activated. (Schemata = plul






44. Connectionism; Wrote the thesis - 'Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals' - in which he concluded that an experimental approach is the only way to understand learning and established his famous 'Law of Eff






45. Coined the term 'Behaviorism'






46. Dividing mental age by chronological age and multiplying by 100.






47. Constructive Knowledge.Construct with ideas and concepts of what they know.






48. Learning as a group process; Lev Vygotsky 1896 - 1935 Social Constructivism






49. Stimulus Sampling Theory (SST)






50. Humanistic Theory of Learning