Learning Theories Quiz

What is the key to making positive reinforcement effective?

• Reward the behavior immediately

• Ignore the behavior

• Punish the behavior immediately

• Reward the behavior after a delay

Which type of consequence in operant conditioning involves providing a stimulus that an individual does not desire to decrease undesired behaviors?

• Negative punishment

• Positive punishment

• Negative reinforcement

• Positive reinforcement

According to behaviorism, how do children learn language?

• Through feedback on success only

• Through imitation, practice, feedback on success, and habit formation

• Through imitation and practice only

• Through habit formation only

What did Noam Chomsky theorize allows any child to acquire any language, even with minimal help and no formal teaching?

• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

• Scaffolding

• Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

• Universal Grammar (UG)

According to Piaget, what is a child/learner accomplishing along a predictable continuum by conducting experiments on the environment?

• Learning through feedback on success

• Learning through practice

• Learning through imitation

• Developmental milestones

What is the gap between what a learner can do by themselves without support and what they can do with support from a person with more knowledge and proficiency called?

• Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

• Universal Grammar (UG)

• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

• Scaffolding

What is the support given to a student by an instructor throughout the learning process called?

• Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

• Universal Grammar (UG)

• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

• Scaffolding

What is the actual use of language by individuals in speech and writing called?

• Competence

• Performance

• Learning strategies

• Schemas

What is the objective of facilitating students' learning by showing them rules and letting them make up their own sentences?

• Learning through imitation

• Making up their own sentences

• Learning through practice

• Learning through feedback on success

What is the deliberate use of learning strategies and long-term memory called?

• Scaffolding

• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

• Universal Grammar (UG)

• Language Acquisition Device (LAD)