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Cognitivism

Cognitivism was officially recognized around 1956. It defined learning as an internal, active, creative process. It emphasizes the critical role that memory plays in helping us translate new information into a form that is meaningful and will allow us to retrieve it and be able to use it. Memory involves three processes: attention, encoding and retrieval. Wilhelm Wundt is considered the father of cognitive psychology.

What is Learning?

What is the Learning Process?

What is the role of the teacher?
Learning is defined as a change in the knowledge that is stored in our memory.
Learning takes place when information is received into the mind and then processed to make sense of it. Learning new information is made possible by connecting it to existing information and then storing it so it can be retrieved later.
The role of the teacher is to present new information in a way that helps the learner attend to, encode and retrieve information. The teacher should organize information and help students link it to existing information.

The Information Processing Model helps us to understand how our mind takes in, processes, stores and retrieves information.

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