PSYC 3410 Final: Educational Psychology Final Exam Review.docx
15 Mar 2012
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Learning to learn is an objective that must rank high in any educator s agenda, the likelihood of achieving this depends on what we know about the nature of learning. Learning is a strengthening of behaviour through repetition. The cognitive revolution (1970) changed the conception of human learning as associations and habits of learning as change in understanding. These changes are examined via micro-genetic methods that focus directly on the process of change itself. The main goal of learning is to have students to come to understand the world around them, so as to be able to function effectively in it and achieve their goals. Even young children construct mental models or theories of casual relations as a means of making sense of both the physical and social phenomena that they encounter. Mental models constitute a kind of core knowledge that enables us to achieve a satisfactory degree of prediction and control of our environment.
