Review of Cognitive Theories

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Review of Cognitive Theories

• EDU 330 Educational Psychology
• Daniel Moos

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Piaget Summary
(1) Create Disequilibrium! (2) Consider how you
are asking students to learn!
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Vygotsky Summary
(1) Get students talking! ? Private speech, think
alouds (2) Role of scaffolding
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Social Cognitive Summary
Self-efficacy

• Self-regulated learning The extent to which a
  student is an active participant in his or her
  own learning
• Forethought Phase
• Performance Phase
• Self-Reflection Phase

(1) Support students self-efficacy and offer
opportunities for them to self-regulate their
learning
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Constructivism Summary

• Provide learners with a varietyof examples and
  representations of content.

• Connect content to the real world.

• Treat verbal explanations skeptically.

• Promote high levels of interaction.

• Make assessment an integral part of the
  teaching-learning process.

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Information Processing Theory Summary