Week 4 Theories of Learning and Motivation

Overview

Cognition and Memory

Chapter 6: Introduction to Cognitive Perspectives

Chapter 7: Basic Components of Memory

Chapter 8: Long-Term Memory Storage and Retrieval Processes

 Activities

 1. Discussion: Memory (2.5%)

Discussion Board

 We often

talk about

memory as

one “thing”

 I remember

or I forgot

 Memory is

a process

Rehearsal

and

Memory

Types of Rehearsal & Memory Connections

1. Maintenance Rehearsal

2. Elaborative Rehearsal

Memory is really

about retrieval!

How do you find a memory?

Memory connections

⚫ Memory connections link each bit of knowledge in memory to other bits of knowledge.

Understanding and memory

⚫ Memory connections can

both help and hurt recall

– Helps: aids retrieval

– Hurts: related information

⚫ Intrusion errors- other

knowledge intrudes into the

remembered event

⚫ Nancy arrived at the cocktail party. She looked around the room

to see who was there. She went to talk with her professor. She

felt she had to talk to him but was a little nervous about what to

say. The hors d’ oeuvres were good but she wasn’t interested in

talking to the rest of the people at the party. After a while she

decided she’d had enough and left the party.

Prologue/Theme

⚫ Nancy woke up feeling sick again and she

wondered if she really were pregnant. How

would she tell the professor she had been

seeing? And the money was another problem.

Schematic Knowledge

⚫ Schema & Scripts – What is in a kitchen?

– Generic Knowledge

⚫ Use – Understand and prepare for

events

– Recall

⚫ If we forget something or fail to

notice it schema steps in

Applications to Education

⚫ Simply hearing/seeing does not guarantee information will be

learned

⚫ Learners must actively make sense of information

⚫ We rely on our previous knowledge (schemas) to make sense of

incoming information

Last, but not least…

⚫ Continue working on lit review paper

⚫ Next week…outline/draft