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Final Exam - HIED 639
multiple choice questions
36
Education
Graduate
05/22/2008

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J. W. Atkinson
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achievement motivation: concepts of "success and failure orientation"
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David Ausubel
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learning theorist; popularized "advanced organizer"
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Albert Bandura
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"social learning"
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Katherine C. Briggs
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coauthor of the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory
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Jerome Bruner
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learning theorist; known for "discovery learning"
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Robert Gagne'
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learning theorist; learning hierarchies
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Howard Gardner
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the "seven intelligences"
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Carl Jung
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developed theory upon which the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory is based
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John Locke
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"Tabula rasa"
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Abraham Maslow
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hierarchy of needs; deficiency and growth needs
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David McClelland
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achievement motivation: people have a need to be successful at something
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Isabel Myers
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coauthor of the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory
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Jean Piaget
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stage theorist/schema/equilibrium/

asssimilation/

accomodation

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Pauline Sears
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on the road to achievement motivation:

subjected students to "success" or "failure"

treatment to determine the effect upon goal setting

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B. F. Skinner
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behaviorist; "operant conditioning"
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E. L. Thorndike
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stimulus-response basis for behaviorism in

education, laws of learning

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50%/50%
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proportion of left-brain/right brain distribution in the general public
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achievement motivation
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Sears, McClelland, Atkinson; the concept that we are conditioned to expect success or failure as a result of our experiences
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advanced organizer
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Ausubel; the idea of beginning instruction in the middle of a learning hierarchy for relevance
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attention

 

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paying attention or "attending" to something monitored by the sensory register
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behaviorism
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learning theory stressing stimulus-response and limited transfer
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discovery
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Bruner's educational theory of disequilibration and equilibration
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feedback lecture
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teaching strategy developed at Oregon State University in the early 1970s to deal with a perceived change in the nature of incoming students
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gestalt
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literally means "patterns" in German; recognizing patterns or similarities
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heuristics
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an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student (a la Bruner)
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long-term memory
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material encoded in the brain
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short-term memory
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where material is stored before being processed into long-term memory or after being retrieved from long-term memory for use
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metacognition
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"knowing about knowing"
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mnemonics
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jingles, rhymes, phrases, acronyms, acrostics or other devices used in helping storage in or retrieval from long-term memory
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intrinsic/extrinsic motivation
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from within or from the outside
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deficiency/growth needs
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Maslow's lower (must be obtained from others) or higher (self-dependent) order needs
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recognition
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up/down process involving the merging of incoming data from the sensory register with information possessed in long-term memory
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elaborative rehearsal
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strategies for placing material in long-term memory
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maintenance rehearsal
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strategies for keeping material in short-term memory
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sensory register
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the five senses
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shaping
Definition
moving a subject toward a desired response by the granting and withdrawing of rewards
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