PLT- student development and the learning process

Responding to a new event or object by changing an existing scheme or creating a new scheme

• accommodation
• conditioning
• assimilation
• disposition

Responding to a new event or object that is consistent with an existing scheme

• assimilation
• accommodation
• conditioning
• disequilibrium

A process of behavior modification by which a person comes to respond in the desired manner to what was once a neutral stimulus

• classical conditioning
• creativity
• divergent thinking
• response

Knowing that a number or amount stays the same even when rearranged for presented in a different shape

• conservation
• problem solving
• response
• equilibrium

Philosophy of learning based on the premise that people construct their own understanding of the world they live in through reflection on experiences

• constructivism
• convergent thinking
• divergent thinking
• disequilibrium

A process of gathering several pieces of information together to solve a problem

• divergent thinking
• convergent thinking
• disequilibrium
• distributed cognition

Teaching methods that enable students to discover information by themselves or in groups

• metacognition
• transfer
• working memory
• discovery learning

One's inability to explain new events based on existing schemes, which is usually accompanied by discomfort

• equilibrium
• conservation
• disequilibrium
• eqilibration

A person's natural tendency to approach learning or problem solving in certain ways

• assimilation
• schema
• scaffolding
• disposition

A process in which two or more learners share their thinking as they work together to solve a problem

• assimilation
• distributed cognition
• discovery learning
• divergent thinking