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CLEP Educational Psychology Theorists And Theories
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1. Cognitive Dissonance
Operant Conditioning
Leon Festinger
Wolfgang Kohler
Inert knowledge
2. Operant Conditioning
Social Learning Theory
Connectionism
Kohlberg
B. F. Skinner
3. Occurs when the presence of previously learned material interferes with the learning of new material.
Psychosexual Theory
Law of Effect
Proactive inhibition
Statistical Learning Theory
4. Gestalt Learning Theory
Jack Mezirow
Albert Bandura
Max Wertheimer 1880
Social Learning Perspective
5. Psychoanalytic Theory of Learning; The role of the Unconscious Mind in Learning
Connectionism
Max Wertheimer 1880
Carl Rogers
Sigmund Freud
6. Dividing mental age by chronological age and multiplying by 100.
Abraham Maslow
Observational Learning
IQ - in the Stanford-Binet formulation - is found by
Gestalt Learning Theory
7. Theory of Classical Conditioning
Brunner
Sigmund Freud
Ivan Pavlov
Edwin Guthrie
8. 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
Abraham Maslow
Law of Effect
Intervening variables
Jean Piaget
9. (Brown - Cognitive apprenticeship)- knowledge which lacks application or cross contextual understanding.
Schema
Constructivism
Psychosexual Theory
Inert knowledge
10. (Thorndike)- the idea that bonds between stimulus and response are strengthened by recency - frequency - and contiguity.
Stimulus Sampling Theory (SST)
Edward L.Thorndike
Law of Exercise
Cognitive Perspective
11. Constructive Knowledge.Construct with ideas and concepts of what they know.
B. F. Skinner
Brunner
Law of Effect
Operant Conditioning
12. (Behaviorism)- One explanation for learning in behaviorism; an association is built between two events simply because they occured simultaneously or overlapping in time.For example - if food is presented while some auditory signal is given - a dog wi
TOTE's
Humanistic Perspective
Contiguity
Keneth W. Spence
13. 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
Behavioralism
Jean Piaget
Psychosexual Theory
Ivan Pavlov
14. Constructivist; Genetic Epistemology; Stages of Cognitive Development
Humanist Theories
Law of Exercise
Jean Piaget
Kurt Koffka
15. According to Maslow - the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential
Lev Vygotsky
Discrimination Learning Theory
B. F. Skinner
Self-Actualization
16. Explanation of development that focuses on the quality of the early emotional relationships developed between children and their caregivers
Attachment Theory
Kurt Koffka
Behavioralism
Social Learning Theory
17. 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.
Sigmund Freud
Schema
J.P. Guilford
B. F. Skinner
18. (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.
Psychosexual Theory
Lev Vygotsky
Connectionism
Observational Learning
19. Vygotsky - ZPD refers to the observation that children - when learning a particular task or body of information - are unable initiallly to do the task. Later they can do it with the assistance of an adult or older child mentor - and finally they can
Zone of Proximal development (ZPD)
John B. Watson
Clark Hull
Sigmund Freud
20. Multiple intelligence theory specifies seven different intelligences that presume a broadened definition of intelligence.
John B. Watson
Dependent variables
Gardner
Self-Efficacy
21. Cognitive Apprenticeship
J.P. Guilford
IQ - in the Stanford-Binet formulation - is found by
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
John Seely Brown
22. (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
Edward L.Thorndike
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Schema
J.P. Guilford
23. (G. A. Miller)- (Test - Operate - Test - Exit). These are operational feedback units that function within a self-regulated system.
24. 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
Dependent variables
Proactive inhibition
Discrimination Learning Theory
Gilligan
25. 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
Self-Efficacy
Drive Reduction Theory
Inert knowledge
Dependent variables
26. Constructivist; published The Process of Education; theories emphasize the significance of categorization in learning
Jerome Bruner
Max Wertheimer 1880
John Seely Brown
Kurt Koffka
27. 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?'
Lev Vygotsky
Operant Conditioning
Jean Piaget
Erik Erikson
28. Discrimination Learning
Bandura
John Seely Brown
Keneth W. Spence
Self-Actualization
29. Learning as a Mental Process
Clark Hull
Cognitive Perspective
Max Wertheimer 1880
Schema
30. (Estes) - A theory developed by Estes that attempts to show how stimuli are sampled and attached to responses. A statistical learning theory.
Stimulus Sampling Theory (SST)
Albert Bandura
Brunner
B. F. Skinner
31. 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
Jean Piaget
J.P. Guilford
Lev Vygotsky
Edward L.Thorndike
32. Humanistic; Transformational Learning
Kohlberg
William Kaye Estes
Jack Mezirow
Social Learning Perspective
33. Drive Reduction Theory
Albert Bandura
J.P. Guilford
Clark Hull
Law of Effect
34. Development; Concepts: stages of moral development; Study Basics: Studied boys responses to and processes of reasoning in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he ste
Leon Festinger
Kohlberg
David Ausubel
Observational Learning
35. Knowledge is Constructed; the Learner is an Active Creator
Humanist Theories
Constructivism
Carl Rogers
Kurt Lewin
36. Stimulus Sampling Theory (SST)
Social Learning Theory
Edward L.Thorndike
B. F. Skinner
William Kaye Estes
37. Gestalt Theory
Edward C. Tolman
Schema
Kurt Koffka
Edwin Guthrie
38. (Behaviorism - Skinner)- a model which states that when a resonse is followed by a reinforcer - the result will be an increase in the probability that this response will occur again under similar conditions.
Operant Conditioning
Self-Actualization
Gestalt Learning Theory
Contiguity
39. Insight Learning
Gestalt Learning Theory
Inert knowledge
Wolfgang Kohler
Cognitive Perspective
40. 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
Gilligan
Observational Learning
Leon Festinger
Dependent variables
41. 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
Attachment Theory
Abraham Maslow
Gardner
Neo-behaviorism
42. Learning as a group process; Lev Vygotsky 1896 - 1935 Social Constructivism
Drive Reduction Theory
David Ausubel
Erik Erikson
Social Learning Perspective
43. 1925 - Observational Learning
Keneth W. Spence
Brunner
Albert Bandura
Jean Piaget
44. (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.
Social Learning Theory
Connectionism
Keneth W. Spence
Expectancy Theory
45. Sign Theory & Latent Learning
Edward C. Tolman
William Kaye Estes
Law of Exercise
Lev Vygotsky
46. Social Constructivism; The Zone of Proximal Development is a concept for which he is well known.
Lev Vygotsky
Discrimination Learning Theory
Inert knowledge
Albert Bandura
47. 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
Erik Erikson
David Ausubel
Jack Mezirow
Proactive inhibition
48. Humanistic Theory of Learning
Contiguity
Abraham Maslow
Operant Conditioning
Jerome Bruner
49. (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
Abraham Maslow
Gardner
J.P. Guilford
Drive Reduction Theory
50. (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.
Connectionism
Cognitive Perspective
David Ausubel
Law of Effect