05:300:306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Graphic Organizer, Student Center, Relate
7 Mar 2018
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Learning is the process of gaining new skills or ideas, acquiring new information. Learning is evidenced in our society by assessments. Long-term change in mental representations or associations as a result of experience. Different than behaviorist view, b view says learning is something that we can always observe. Because thought cannot be studied, behaviorism view learning as behavior change in response to the environment. Learning occurs through interactions with the environment. People learn through interactions with one another. Environment and thought processes affect our behavior; more closely related to behaviorist traditions than contextual theory. Self efficacy: our thought process affects our behavior. Self regulation: monitoring self in social situations. Focus on cognitive processes involved in learning, memory, and performance. Core concepts: how we process information, the mechanisms the underlie human cognition, constructivist nature of knowledge. Nothing to do with the environment, solely in the brain. Emphasis on the environment"s general influence on learning (cid:312)physical, social, cultural(cid:313)
