What is Cognitivism

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Cognitivism is a learning theory according to which mental processes mediate learning and learning entails the construction or reshaping of mental schemata. Cognitivists believe that knowledge resides in complex memory structures in the human mind called schemata, and learning is the process of changing these structures. ID from a cognitivist perspective focuses on presenting learners with the appropriate information and feedback to shape their mental schemata. Learn more in: The End of Instructional Design

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It considers learning as an expression of mind in its processes and psycho-dynamic conditions. Teachers/authors are responsible in assisting learners, organizing information in an optimal way to be easily assimilated. Learn more in: Risk and Benefit of Effective Techniques and Technologies in Education: A Historical Overview

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It is concerned with what the learner is thinking in terms of processing information for storage and retrieval. Learn more in: Designing Effective Computer-Based Learning Materials

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A psychological paradigm that views learning information processing within the mind. Learn more in: Assessment of Learning and Technology: Computer Science Education

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Is not an uncomplicated or solitary paradigm. Cognitive science is at the root of cognitivism. Learning takes place in cognitivism when a learner processes information that comes from the outside world by building a mental construct of the information. Learn more in: Creating Supportive Multimedia Learning Environments

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This epistemology treats conceptual understandings as a pattern of connections between similar elements (e.g., concepts) and learning as strengthening or weakening those connections (e.g., conceptual relations). Learn more in: Collaborative Learning: Leveraging Concept Mapping and Cognitive Flexibility Theory

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Cognitivism gained momentum in the late 1950s as a counter attack towards behaviorism, which relied upon overt or observable behavior as the determinant of human learning. The cognitivists emphasized the role of internal mental processes and how mind works during the process of learning. Learn more in: An Evaluative Framework for the Most Suitable Theory of Mobile Learning

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Requires that students engage in the process of accessing prior knowledge, making connections between old and new concepts, and using them to construct theory. Learn more in: Redefining the Higher Education Landscape through Problem-Based Learning

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It is concerned with what the learner is thinking in terms of processing information for storage and retrieval. Learn more in: Designing Instruction for Successful Online Learning

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Looks at human beings like a black box where the input of information produces some output. It has a positivist and reductionist approach to the analysis of knowledge phenomena and is persuaded that psychological events can be fully explained by experiments, measurements and the application of the scientific method. Learn more in: Towards a Framework for Evaluating ICT-Based Materials

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A view of learning focusing on knowledge being formed by the acquisition or re-organization of symbolic mental constructions (schema). Learning is viewed as a three stage ‘information processing’ occurrence: input enters from the senses (sensory register), some of this input is transferred to short term memory (can be retained here longer through repeated rehearsal and chunking of material into meaningful parts) and then may be committed to Long-term memory. Learn more in: Blended Learning Primer

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Cognitivism is the study in psychology that focuses on mental processes, including how people perceive, think, remember, learn, solve problems, and direct their attention to one stimulus rather than another. Learn more in: Interface Design