Theories of Learning - Concept Learning, Schemas and Scripts, and Expertise


Teaching concepts

Describe the factors that influence the ease or difficulty of learning concepts.

Describe effective methods of teaching concepts.

Recognize examples of mnemonics.

Explain why mnemonics work.

Conceptual change

Provide examples of typical misconceptions that children have.

Explain why misconceptions can be so resistant to change.

Promoting learning

Explain some ways that testing itself provides an opportunity for learning.

Describe some effects of teacher expectations on learning.

Concept learning.

Explain a feature based theory of concept learning.

Explain a prototype theory of concept learning.

Concept learning.

Explain a feature based theory of concept learning.

Explain a prototype theory of concept learning.

Knowledge structures.

Describe an example of a schema.

Distinguish between a schema and a script.

State some of the effects of organizing knowledge in schemas and scripts.

Expertise

Describe how the knowledge of experts differs from that of novices.

Describe the process of acquiring expertise.