Elicit the desired response from the learner who is presented with a target stimulus

Basic definitions and explaination of concepts

Cannot adequately explain the acquisition of higher level skills

Address the issues of how information is received, organized, stored, and retrieved by the mind.

Higher-level reasoning and information processing

The role of practice with corrective feedback.

Focuses on the mental activities of the learner that lead up to a response

Determine which reinforcers are most effective for a particular student.

Arrangement of stimuli and consequences within the environment.

Making knowledge meaningful and helping learners organize and relate new information to existing knowledge in memory

Higher-level problem solving and critical analysis

Learning occur in realistic settings and that the selected learning tasks be relevant to the students’ lived experiences

Situations actually co-produce knowledge (along with cognition) through activity