NYSTCE: Educangti All Students (EAS) Exam 2023 Passed!!

NYSTCE: Educangti All Students (EAS) Exam 2023 Passed!! Behaviorism - people's actions are driven by a need to gain rewards or avoid punishments. Reinforcement - meant to increase a good behavior; a reward Punishment - meant to decrease bad behavior Positive reinforcement - involves giving someone something that he or she wants Negative reinforcement - taking away something that someone does not want Positive punishment - involves giving someone something that he or she does not want Negative punishment - involves taking away something that someone does want Extinction - decreases the chances of a response to something by withdrawing reinforcement of the behavior; like a reset button Constructivism - a philosophy of education that says that people construct knowledge through their experiences and interactions with the world Social learning - learning through interactions with other people Vyogtsky's Zone of Proximal Development - people learn best from other people who are just a little ahead of them Project-based learning (PBL) - focuses on giving an open-ended question and complex problem to a group of students and having them figure out the best solution to the problem .