FACILITATING LEARNER CENTERED TEACHING

Meaningful Learning occurs when the new information is related to prior knowledge.

• True

• False

Ausubel's theory is concerned with how individuals learn large amounts of meaningful material from verbal/textual presentations in a school setting.

• True

• False

Developing a voluntary response to a specific stimulus or combination

of stimuli.

• Stimulus-Response Learning

• Signal learning

• Concept learning

• Problem Solving

Ausubel's theory suggests that if a learner is to acquire new concepts from verbal material he must have an existing cognitive structure upon which new concepts can be subsumed or anchored.

• True

• False

Till how long one can retain data in short term memory?

• 10 secs.

• 20 secs.

• 30 secs.

• 40 secs.

This type of advance organizer is used to present new or detailed information as opposed to making connections with previously introduced information.

• expository

• comparative

• skimming

This type of advance organizer presents a study of the differences between items the student already knows and what they are about to learn.

• expository

• comparative

• skimming

Ausubels' teaching approach is _________.

• deductive

• inductive

• both deductive and inductive

____________ is when you add new things to existing cognitive structures, linking them to concepts already known.

• Derivative subsumption

• Correlative subsumption

• Superordinate subsumption

• combinatorial subsumption

____________ is when you add new details to what the you already know, usually a higher-order concept.

• Derivative subsumption

• Correlative subsumption

• Superordinate subsumption

• combinatorial subsumption