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Affect theory
“
a branch of psychoanalysis that attempts to organize affects into discrete categories and connect each one with its typical response”
1)
Bartlett effect
Cognition
Comprehension
an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something
2)
Declarative knowledge
knowledge is often by instructional designers and philosophers divided into two categories: declarative (knowledge about things, knowledge that, for example knowledge about computers) and procedural (skills, knowledge how, for example knowledge how to use a computer)
Discrimination learning theory
Distributed representation
Gestalt
Insightful learning
learning that results in perceiving the solution to a problem after a period of cognitive trial and error
learner is required to have all elements of the problem available in order to be able to learn by insight
Journal
Magazine
Paradigm
a set of ideas that are used for understanding or explaining something, especially in a particular subject
a typical example or model of something
Procedural knowledge
Schema
a mental framework humans use to represent and organize remembered information
they enable us to recall, modify our behavior, or try to predict most likely outcomes of events
Structuralism
Theory
Transfer of practice
(or
transfer of learning) a term coined by Thorndike and Woodworth
3), referring to the generalization of knowledge and transfer of it from one context to another