- Adherence
- commitment or attachment to a regimen
- Affective domain
- known as the "feeling" domain and is divided into categories that specify the degree of a person’s depth of emotional response to tasks; it includes feelings, emotions, interests, attitudes, and appreciations
- Andragogy
- the art and science of helping adults learn
- Behaviorist theory
- includes the careful identification of what is to be taught and the immediate identification of and reward for correct responses
- Cognitive domain
- the "thinking" domain, includes six intellectual abilities and thinking processes beginning with knowing, comprehending, and applying to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
- Cognitive theory
- recognition of developmental levels of learners, and acknowledgments of the learner’s motivation and environment
- Compliance
- the extent to which an individual's behavior coincides with medical or health advice
- Geragogy
- the term used to describe the process involved in stimulating and helping elderly persons to learn
- Humanism
- learning that focuses on the feelings and attitudes of learners, the importance of the individual in indentifying learning needs and taking responsibility for them, and the self-motivation of the learners to work toward self-reliance and independence
- Imitation
- copying the behaviors and attitudes of another person
- Learning
- a change in human disposition or capability that persists over a period of time and cannot be solely accounted for by growth
- Learning need
- a desire or a requirement to know something that is presently unknown to the learner
- Modeling
- observing the behavior of people who have successfully achieved a goal that one has set for oneself and, through observing, acquiring ideas for behavior and coping strategies
- Motivation
- the desire to learn
- Pedagogy
- the discipline concerned with helping children learn
- Positive reinforcement
- giving rewards such as praise for a learner’s achievements
- Psychomotor domain
- the "skill" domain, includes motor skills such as giving an injection
- Readiness
- behaviors or cues that reflect a learner's motivation to learn at a specific time
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