Cognitivism

people acquire and store knowledge, referred to as

• Learning process

• Meaningful learning

• Connections

• Schema

Recognize the importance of the students’ mental assets and mental activity in learning

• Teacher’s role

• How learning occurs

• Study practices

one of the major theorists of cognitivism

• Watson

• Batman

• Thorndike

• Bruner

When individuals encounter new information, they process it against their existing knowledge or schema in order to make new connections.

• Teacher’s role

• Study practices

• How learning occurs

Cognitivists assert that activities that require learners to recall information from memory, sometimes referred to as

• How learning occurs

• Retrieval practice

• schema

one of the major theorists of cognitivism

• Pávlov

• Skinner

• Bandura

• Piaget

Write one of the benefits of cognitive learning

Cognitivists promote that “trying to solve a problem before being taught the solution leads to better learning, even when errors are made in the attempt”

• True

• False

Who performed the Bobo doll experiment?

• Bruner

• Bandura

• Watson

• Piaget