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ASPECTS OF BEHAVIORISM
1. Anyone can be trained for a task
2. Behavior is acquired by conditioning
3. Behavior is OBSERVABLE and MEASURABLE
II. COGNITIVE
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 4. INFORMATION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
- Study of HOW OUR BRAINS WORK in the process of - Discovery learning is process-oriented and not content-
perceiving, thinking, remembering, and learning (BREUR, oriented.
1993) 5. FAILURE AND FEEDBACK
- Learning doesnt only occur when we find the right answers.
INFORMATION PROCESSING It also occurs through failure.
- Sometimes used to describe this field of study.
ADVANTAGES
FOCUS OF CT: MENTAL PROCESS that are responsible for - Encourages motivation, involvement and creativity
behavior and its meaning. - Learner’s pace is priority
- Promotes autonomy and independence
1. INSIGHT LEARNING (Wolfgang Kohler) - Ensures higher levels of retention
- Sudden realization of the solution of any problem without
repeated trials or continuous practices. 4. SCHEMA THEORY (David Rumelhart)
- Chimpanzee named sultan - Active strategy coding technique necessary for facilitating
the recall if knowledge.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INSIGHT LEARNING
1. Insight represents seeing CLEARLY into the essence of a SCHEMA/SCHEMATA
situation. - Knowledge structures that are stored in memory.
2. NOT a step by step process but partially by unconscious ALL KNOWLEDGE IS PACKAGED INTO UNITS
process. units = schemata tall dark handsome