Prompt #1: Pick two of the following concepts of behaviorism. For each concept, (a) provide a description of that concept and (b) provide a context-specific example of how that concept could be applied within your field or specific profession:
• Pick at least one of the following: Classical conditioning; Reinforcement (positive and negative); Punishment (presentation and removal)
• Pick at least one of the following: Fixed reinforcement schedules (ratio and interval); Variable reinforcement schedules (ratio and interval); Counter conditioning; Cueing
Prompt #2: Pick two of the following concepts of human cognition. For each concept, (a) provide a description of that concept and (b) provide a context-specific example of how that concept could be applied within your field or specific profession:
• Pick at least one of the following: Motivated working memory allocation; Encoding strategies; Retrieval-based learning; Myelination; “The magical mystery four”
• Pick at least one of the following: Chunking; Verbalization; Enactment; Distributed practice; Imagery; Hot cognition
Prompt #3: Pick two of the following concepts of the motivation to learn. For each concept, (a) provide a description of that concept and (b) provide a context-specific example of how that concept a could be applied within your field or specific profession:
• Pick at least one of the following: Personal vs. situational interest; The four types of achievement goals; the “Doing-Just-Enough-Goal”
• Pick at least one of the following: Attribution theory (all three dimensions and their components); Expectancy-value theory (including importance, utility, interest, and cost)
Prompt #4: Pick four of Gagne’s nine learning events. For each event, (a) provide a description of that event and (b) provide a context-specific example of how that event could be applied within your field or specific profession to aid learning.
Prompt #5: Pick two of the following concepts related to Social Cognitive Theory and self-regulation of learning. For each concept, (a) provide a description of that concept and (b) provide a context-specific example of how that concept could be applied within your field or specific profession:
• Self-efficacy; Vicarious learning (reinforcement and punishment); Modeling; Reciprocal causation; The five profiles of motivated-self-regulated engagement
