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A coherent framework of integrated constructs and principles that describe, explain, or predict how people learn.
Learning Theory
five primary educational learning theories
: behaviorism, cognitive, constructivism, humanism, and
connectivism.
viewed as a highly active process largely directed by the individual.
Cognitive learning
Educators trying to influence the learning process must
recognize the variety of past experiences, perceptions,
ways of incorporating and thinking about information
Cognitive Learning Theory
one’s own understanding of their way of learning.
METACOGNITION
Involves perceiving the information, interpreting it based
on what is already known, and then reorganizing the
information into new insights or understanding
Cognitive Learning Theory
Perspectives of the cognitive learning theory
gestalt perspective, information processing, human / cognitive development, social constructivism / cognition, cognitive-emotional perspective
One of the oldest psychological theories.
Gestalt perspective
Emphasizes the importance of perception in
learning and lays the groundwork for various
other cognitive perspectives to follow it.
Gestalt perspective
A principal assumption is that each person perceives, interprets, and responds to any situation in their own way
Gestalt perspective
A cognitive perspective that emphasizes thinking processes
Information processing
Nine events that activate effective learning
reception, expectancy, retrieval, selective perception, semantic encoding, reinforcement, retrieval, generalization
gaining the learner’s attention
Reception
informing the learner of the objectives and
experiences.
Expectancy
stimulating the learner’s recall of prior learning.
Retrieval