Question

What is the process of responding to the environment in accordance with one’s cognitive structure called?

Piaget’s optimal condition for learning is described as what?

What are the components of Tolman’s theory of learning?

Tolman described learning that happens without our explicit, attention, and has not been translated into performance. What is this called?

Bandura’s theory focuses on what type of learning, where we observe and take in information, rather than blindly imitating?

The famous “bobo doll experiments” identified what two principles that impact a persons behavior?

What three components work together to determine a person’s response in any given situation, described as reciprocal determinism?

Answer 1

Assimilation is the process of responding to the environment in accordance with one's cognitive structure.

Piaget's optimal condition for learning is described as the scenario in which one not only 'assimilates' but also 'accommodates' various experiences (pysical and social) into one's cognitive structure, thereby resulting in optimal cognitive development.

Components of Tolman's theory of learning (Sign theory): Tolman proposed an eclectic approach that is purposeful, goal-oriented and spells out how every individual reaches their goals through forming cognitive structures of their environment. The major components of the theory include: Latent learning, Cognitive maps, Cognitive control in directing attention and behavior, Purpose behind behavior, Spatial orientation, Hypothesis, Searching for the stimulus and Vicarious trial and error.

Latent learning is the learning that happens without our explicit attention and has not been translated into performance.

Observational learning is the learning where we observe and take in information rather than blindly imitating.

Observation and imitation/modeling are the two principles that impact a person's behavior, as identified in the 'bobo doll experiments.'

Behavior, environmental influences and personal characteristics are the three components that work together to determine a person's response in any given situation, described as reciprocal determinism.