Learning & Development - Midterm Quiz (Ch 2-5)

Learning is generally defined as:

• Temporary memory increase

• Emotional engagement

• Relatively permanent change in behavior, knowledge, or skills

• Genetic development

A focus of behavioural learning theory is:

• Intelligence tests

• Role modelling

• Observable behaviour change

• Emotional engagement

Operant conditioning is primarily concerned with:

• Brain waves

• Student choices

• Consequences of behaviour

• Observational learning

Which is an example of reinforcement?

• Student forgetting homework

• Teacher praising good work

• Student failing test

• Student leaving early

Olivia asking her coach for extra help is an example of:

• Reinforcement

• Self-regulated learning

• External motivation

• Natural consequence

Cognitive development refers to changes in:

• Health

• Thinking and reasoning

• Social skills

• Emotions

According to Piaget, the ability to reason abstractly occurs in:

• Sensorimotor stage

• Preoperational stage

• Formal operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

Erikson believed adolescents face which crisis?

• Autonomy vs shame

• Identity vs role confusion

• Initiative vs guilt

Maslow’s hierarchy places (a)   needs at the base.

• Aesthetic

• Physiological

• Esteem

• Belonging

Vygotsky’s instructional scaffolding is:

• Behaviour modelling

• Competitive strategy

• Guided support within the zone of proximal development