Teaching and Learning

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Behaviorism

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Changing environment to shape behavior. Associated with Pavlov, classical and operant conditioning, external stimuli, and reinforcement.

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Humanism

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Learning centered around development of human growth of mind, body, and spirit. Associated with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and self-actualization.

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Cognitivism

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Focus on learner's mental processes (processing, storing, retrieval). Includes mature organism model, cognitive-load theory, dual processing theory, chunking, and schema.

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Social Cognitivism

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Human learning occurs in a social environment, learning from others. Involves self-efficacy and interactive relationship between cognitive factors, environment, and behaviors.

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Constructivism

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Creating meaning/knowledge from human experience. Includes situated cognition theory and Zone of Proximal Development.

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Adult Learning Theory (Andragogy)

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6 Assumptions: Self-Concept, Experience, Readiness to Learn, Problem-Centered Orientation, Internal Motivation, Need to Know.

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Inductive Reasoning

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Using past experiences or knowledge to draw conclusions. Makes broad generalizations from specific examples.

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Deductive Reasoning

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Using a group of true premises to draw a conclusion that is also true. Known as 'top-down logic'.

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Critical Thinking

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The process of mentally interacting with information without a result.

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Clinical Reasoning

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Having a reason as a result of the critical thinking process.