TAL 103 Lecture Notes - Central Tendency, System Model, Stanine

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Course: TAL 103
• Professor: Lipsky

Document Summary

Learning is viewed as an active/internal mental process of acquiring, remembering & using. Learning: cognitive view of learning knowledge that can"t be observed. Learning -> change in behavior: behavioral view, cognitive view: Learning -> change in knowledge: knowledge is general & domain specific. General: long-term) part of long-term memory that is presently active. Long-term memory attention rehearsal elaborative rehearsal maintenance rehearsal elaborative rehearsal (use logic to associate it w. old memories & retain it in chunking phonological loop (echoic memory) visuospatial sketchpad (keeping an image in your head) (iconic memory) Guides our selection of info from the environment. Analyze sensory info before using prior knowledge to process it. Our prior knowledge affects how we perceive sensory info. Automated process of reading interferes w. ability to name the color tendency to organize perceptual input into patterns/configurations. The order in which you look at similar info affects what you perceive it to be explicit, semantics.