EDP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sketchpad, Gestalt Psychology, Long-Term Memory

• School: Miami University
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EDP 201
• Professor: Alicia Yannalfo

Document Summary

Generally defined as relatively permanent changes in behavior, skills, knowledge, or attitudes resulting from identifiable psychological or social experiences (somewhat behavioral) Behaviorism (learning as changes in overt behavior) Perspective on learning focused on how students actively create/construct knowledge out of experiences. Learners are active in constructing their own knowledge. Social interactions are important in this knowledge construction process. Individuals make sense of the world based on individual knowledge, beliefs, and self- concept. Social interaction, cultural tools, and activity shape individual development and learning. Five recommendations: create complex, challenging learning environments, provide social negotiation and shared responsibility for learning, support multiple representations of content, nurture self-awareness and an understand that knowledge is constructed, encourage student ownership in learning. A general approach that views learning as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering, and using knowledge. Active learning:learners are active in their attempts to understand the world. Existing knowledge guides our attention and affects what we remember and forget.