Thursday, February 28, 2013

Cognitive Learning Theory


Cognitive Psychology focuses on the study of how people think, understand, and know. In cognitive learning theory there are three important  theories. There are Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, Vygotsky’s sociocultural cognitive theory and information processing theories.
The learner as an active participant in the process of knowledge acquisition and integration. According to cognitive theory learners should participate the lessons actively and  to make the learning meaningful teachers can use more indirect instructional strategies. As well teacher should relate the new information with prior knowledge it will be easy for the students to store the information in the memory.
According to the information Processing Model human brain is like a computer. “Information processing theorists proposed that like a computer, a human mind is a system that processes information through the application of logical rules and strategies. The mind has a limited capacity for the amount and nature of the information it can process.” (http://peoplelearn.homestead.com)

6 comments:

  1. Shaaheena you have done a great thing. But for me the explanation little short. instead u could have wrote theory by theory. once again thank you

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  2. Wonderful. keep on adding entries.

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  3. good work.could write little longer.keep up.

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  4. good work.. but it will be more interesting if you have included some more local examples/ your experiences related to it

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