Test Your Understanding
Which of the following situations involve learning and why/how?
1. Memorizing dates associated with certain historic battles.
2. Watching a video of a person disassembling a particular device.
3. Using an ohmmeter to test the level of resistance at a certain point in an electrical
circuit.
4. Figuring out how to cut several pieces of wood in order to fit together in a prescribed
pattern.
5. Practicing a particular piece of music on the piano.
6. Telling a student that a particular sentence is incomplete.
7. Asking a student why a particular calculation was done in the course of solving a
problem.
8. Asking the reader why something was repeated three times.
Indicate which of the following involve intentional learning and which involve incidental learning and indicate why/how.
1. Accidentally touching a hot stove.
2. Practicing solving various quadratic equations.
3. Confusing someone’s name with the name of someone else.
4. Asking a teacher to explain the rationale for something one does not understand.
5. Exploring a virtual reality world.
6. Developing an electronic portfolio to illustrate one’s work.
7. Playing a flight simulator game.
