PSY 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Free Recall, Mental Model, Personalization
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Rationale: words and graphics are the major vehicle for instruction, including textbooks, online material, and lectures. Multimedia instructional message - using words and graphics with the intention of promoting learning. Cognitive theory of learning: you have control over your attention - maintain your attention is how you get the information into your working memory. Three instructional techniques based on the cognitive theory of learning: techniques for selecting: adjunct questions, cognitive goal: guide the learner"s attention to the important material, adjunct question: question that is included in a lesson, placement: before or after. Students were asked to read six passages on mathematical probability theory, with one type of question printed after each passage. Logical connective phrases, such as because of this, to clarify the cause-and- effect chain within each part. Make the learner"s job easier by rewriting the sentence so it repeats, from the previous sentence, the linking word to which it should be linked: 2.
