Category: L

A curve in which some index of learning is plotted against trials or sessions. Problems in mastering language, reading, mathematics, or other subject area that are not caused by heredity, economic, or social status. Also called specific developmental disorders. The effect of learning or practice on the performance of an intellectual or physical task.  

A change in behavior. Potentiality that occurs as a result of reinforced practice. The act of gaining knowledge of something or of how to do something. Acquiring knowledge or developing the ability to perform new behaviors. The scientific study of learning focuses on behavior, specifically on how behavior changes as a result of experience. A…

A subcategory of the pathology model that views mental disorders as the result of some form of faulty learning, and believes that these should be treated by behavior therapists according to the laws of classical and instrumental conditioning, or by cognitive therapists who try to affect faulty modes of thinking, medical model; psychoanalytic model.  

These include a wide variety of methods that provide the learner with the opportunity to observe others who are actively engaged in some sort of health activity. Essentially, a passive form of learning. The field trip and demonstration methods are examples.  

Includes a variety of approaches based on the premise that learning is most effective when the learner is actively involved in all phases of the learning process: planning, selecting objectives, selecting the learning processes, and self-evaluation. These methods emphasize learning as opposed to teaching.  

A written document describing what learners will be doing to achieve their objectives, rather than what teachers will be doing, teacher-centered curriculum guide.  

One who learns: pupil, student, or scholar.  

The hypothesis that depression is analogous to learned helplessness effects produced in the laboratory by exposing subjects to uncontrollable aversive events.  

Apparently normal behavior in a person with a high blood alcohol content.