PSYCH212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tim Hortons, Information Processing, Long-Term Memory
14 Dec 2017
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Chapter 8: cognitive information processing approach to teaching and learning. Cognitive information processing approach to learning -general (3) 2x knowledge; 1x comprehension. Store model & level of processing model (6) 4x comprehension; 2x application. Cognitive approach, trying to understand what is going on in the brain the you are learning. Learn how students process, remember and retrieve information in a testing situation. A general approach that views learning as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering, and using knowledge. Learners: are active, use experience, organize and recognize. Link to piaget"s theory of equilibrium and disequilibrium. Learning is extending and transforming the understanding we already have, not simply writing associations on the black slates of our brains. We are actively influenced by our environments. Mirror systems: areas of the brain that fire both during perception of an action by someone else and when performing the action.
