Psychology 2610G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Project-Based Learning, Cognitive Load, Spreading Activation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2610G
• Professor: Lynda Hutchinson

Document Summary

Identify some individual, and development differences in memory from long-term memory: describe processes and strategies involved in becoming knowledgeable. Elements of the cognitive perspective: behaviorism, new behaviours are learned, learning is dependent on external events, reinforcement strengthens responses, cognitive view, knowledge is learned. Changes in knowledge make changes in behaviour possible. Individual brings internal knowledge to learning situation: reinforcement is a source of feedback. Information processing model: long-term memory: holds the information that is well learned, unlimited capacity, permanent, accessing long-term memory requires time and effort. Representing information in long-term memory: two categories of long-term memory, explicit memories, knowledge from memory that is recalled and consciously considered, episodic memory: about events we have experienced, semantic memory: memory for meaning. Implicit memories: knowledge that we are not aware of recalling, but influences behaviour. Images: representations based on the physical attributes of information.