Robert Gagne's hierarchy of learning consists of:
(i) symbolic learning
(ii) Stimulus-response learning
(iii) Combinatorial learning
(iv) Social Constructivist learning
(v) Verbal association
(vi) Discrimination learning
The developmental picture including conceptualizing and classifying objects, organizing parts into larger wholes, seriation, understanding hierarchical arrangments, shifting from inductive to deductive mode of thinking, to be able to generalize and to deduce from simple experiences belongs to Piaget's :
What are the different types of individual differences?
Match the following :
1 | Enactive | A | Learning through images and visual representations |
2 | Iconic | B | Learning through language and abstract symbols. |
3 | Symbolic | C | Learning through actions and concrete experiences |
A quote from a famous Educationist is given: Identify the person from the quote.
"But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands-on and explore actively and try things out - then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education"?
Some of the famous learning theories and its propounders are given below. Match them appropriately.
a. Jean Piaget | i Trial and error theory (ii) (iii) (iv) |
b. Vygotski | ii Classical conditioning |
c. Kohler | iii Cognitive development theory |
d. Thorndike | iv Insight theory |
v Socio cultural theory |
While teaching 'force' using Concept Attainment Model, teacher presents the following exemplars.
(i) Pushing a table
(ii) A box on the table
(iii) Stopping a rolling ball
Identify the positive exemplars.