EDUC 40 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Procedural Knowledge, Descriptive Knowledge, Long-Term Memory
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We can remember things more easily by connecting it to existing knowledge and skills. Learning - a long-term change in mental representations or associations as a result of experience. Cognitive psychology - addresses numerous mental phenomena that underlie human behavior, including perception, memory, forgetting, and reasoning. Mentally try to interpret and remember what they see, hear, and study. People"s cognitive processes can sometimes be inferred from their behaviors. Cognitive psychologists suggest that by observing people"s responses to various objects and events, it"s possible to draw reasonable inferences to make educated guesses about the cognitive processes that probably underlie the responses. People are selective about what they mentally process and learn. Meanings and understandings are not derived directly from the environment; instead they are constructed by the learner. Information process theory - how people mentally process and remember new information and events. Encoding - modifying info in some sort of way , meaning interpretation.
