- The learning process
Key terms
Appropriate (verb)
Behaviorism
Bloom’s taxonomy
Classical conditioning
Constructivism
Psychological constructivism
John Dewey
Jean Piaget
Assimilation
Accommodation
Equilibrium
Schema
Social constructivism
Jerome Bruner
Instructional scaffolding
Lev Vygotsky
Zone of proximal development
Discrimination
Extinction
Extrinsic motivation
Generalization
Learning
Intrinsic motivation
Metacognition
Operant conditioning
Cue
Operant
Reinforcement
Schedule of reinforcement
Ivan Pavlov
Readiness
Respondent conditioning
Conditioned response
Conditioned stimulus
Unconditioned response
Unconditioned stimulus
B. F. Skinner
Transfer
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