Chapter 6: Cognitive Theories of Learning: Basic Concepts Objectives

What Is an Information-Processing Model?

• Explain how the information-processing model works and illustrate its processes in a diagram.

What Causes People to Remember and Forget?

• Identify factors that lead to forgetting and to retaining information.

How Can Memory Strategies Be Taught?

• Describe several ways in which memory strategies can be directly taught.

What Makes Information Meaningful?

• Define "meaningful learning" and explain how schema theory aids in our understanding of how learning becomes meaningful.

How Do Metacognitive Skills help Students Learn?

• Identify the metacognitive skills and explain how you would teach reciprocal teaching to students as an example of how metacognitive skills can be taught.

What Study Strategies Help Students Learn?

• List key study skills and explain how to teach cooperative scripting and the PQ4R method as examples of how study skills can be directly taught.

How Can Cognitive Teaching Strategies Help Students Learn?

• Define "cognitive teaching" and give examples of classroom strategies teachers can use to make learning relevant to students' prior experiences.