Learning and Peer Collaboration Flashcards
What are the 3 key principles of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
Self-directed, constructivist, cognitive conflict
According to Thorndike, what is behaviourism the association between?
Situations and responses
What are Thorndike’s two “laws”?
Law of exercise and law of effect
What is Thorndike’s law of exercise?
Connections are strengthened between situations and responses
What is Thorndike’s law of effect?
When a connection is made between a situation and a response it is either strengthened (satisfying) or weakened (annoying)
Operant conditioning is learning via…? By who?
Consequence (Skinner)
Classical conditioning is learning via…? By who?
Association (Pavlov)
SLT is learning via…? By who?
Observation (Bandura)
What is the SLT increasingly emphasising on?
Cognitive factors: selective attention, retention and representation
What are Doise’s views on social interaction?
Children work better in pairs than alone (3 mountains task)
How does social interaction influence conservers and non-conservers?
Leads to progression for non-conservers
How are behaviourist approaches applied in schools?
Use of reward and punishment and learning via observation
What is discovery learning?
When children problem solve in groups
What does Bruner say about how discovery methods work?
The child is at the centre of the process
What are Mayer’s views on discovery learning?
That they fail to promote the first cognitive process - selecting relevant information
