• Students should be prepared to identify at least 2 assumptions of information processing theories.
• Students should be prepared to identify 3 different models of human memory, define them, and understand the differences.
• Students need to understand the essential components of learning from a cognitive perspective, including perception, encoding, retrieval and the learning framework.
• Students should recognize disadvantages to this theory as outlined by Gredler.

• Students should be able to identify some reasons children may not implement metacognitive strategies following instruction.
• Students should be able to identify advantages and disadvantages of having children construct their own problems to pursue.
• Students should understand differences between expert and novice problem solvers.
• Students should be prepared to define keywords including but not necessarily limited to metacognition, metacognitive knowledge, comprehension monitoring, conditional knowledge, heuristics, problem recognition, problem approach and self-monitoring skills.

Content Overview 

• Cognitive Learning Theory: A very quick overview

Practice 

    1) Review Module 5 and develop a mnemonic to remember Gagne's nine instructional events.  Do you
    believe that it would have been beneficial to develop this mnemonic prior to reading the chapter?  prior
    to completing your homework?  Are you more likely to be able to recall the nine events in the future
    since you have developed this mnemonic?

    2) Consider a time in your life when you retrieved a seemingly lost memory due to a sight, sound or
    smell.  How do you explain that this memory appeared lost and then reappeared?

    3) From the information processing perspective, why is the following statement groundless?  "I want
    to teach my students cognitive learning strategies, but, because of all the subject matter I must cover
    during the year, I just don't have the time."

    4) What are the major differences between the Gestalt view of problem solving and the information
    processing perspective?

    5)  Why are the sentences in Set A below easier to remember than the sentences in set B?
        A:  Benjamin Franklin flew the kite.  Gearoge Washington hid the ax.  Santa Claus walked on the
              roof. Noah built the ark.
        B:  Jim flew the kite.  John hid the ax.  Ted walked on the roof.  Malcolm built a boat.

 
Links to Resources 

• A med-school page: be sure to check out the "depth of processing " experiment.
• Some notes on the importance of rehearsal
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Homework 

Read the following Gedanken.  Once complete, I encourage you to consider the variety of issues that are raised, as well as the possible reasons that the assignment is written the way it is.  Once you have crafted your response, e-mail me your response.
  Gedanken     You are a reporter for the World Weekly Star Enquirer, which likes to inform inquiring but generally untroubled minds.  Your assignment this week is to interview Dr. Turing J. Minsky, the first cognitive scientist specializing in educational psychology to win the Nobel Prize.  Dr. Minsky won his prize for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt, one of the following positions:

    1) The human mind works just like a computer, and all knowledge is additive or
    2) The human mind works completely unlike a computer, and all knowledge, once acquired,
        completely alters the nature of all previous knowledge.

    Present the view of your choice in clear, readable tabloid prose.  You must be both accurate and clear.  Do a good job, and make Carl Sagan jealous of you.

    Hint:  Dr. Minsky is a cognitive psychologist.  Therefore, his position will be based in a CIP perspective and conveyed in the appropriate technobabble one would associate with this perspective. 
 

Communication  

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