EDUC 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metacognition, Specific Performance, Situated Cognition
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The process of acquiring knowledge and skills, and a change in individual behavior as a result of some experience. Interaction between the individual and the environment that results in a relatively permanent change in behavior. A persisting change in human performance or performance potential as a result of experience. Verbs: state, recite, tell, declare, define: intellectual skills. Categories: discrimination, concrete concept, defined concept, rule, higher order rule. Verbs: distinguish, identify, classify, solve, label and specify: cognitive strategies. Understanding how and when to use the information. Verbs: adopt, create, originate, invent: motor skills. Coordination and execution of physical movements: attitudes. Preferences and internal states associated with beliefs and feelings. Learn the alphabet learn conventions about direction of reading separation of words, purpose of punctuation, rote learning of some words. Integrating tasks into sequences to simplify and streamline the task. Learner has mastered task and performance is automatic and habitual.
