Information Processing Learning Theory And Instruction

Information Processing Learning

TheoryAnd Instruction

Input

Output

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Store this input on your hard drive…in order.• Permian

• Carboniferous

• Devonian

• Silurian

• Ordovician

• Cambrian

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• Permian

• Carboniferous

• Devonian

• Silurian

• Ordovician

• Cambrian

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• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

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• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Jupiter

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• Uranus

• Neptune

• Pluto

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Memory = Encoding

• Pay attention• Rehearse• Process at a Deep

Level– Shallow – Deep – Deepest

• Elaborate• Construct images• Organize

CENTRAL EXECUTIVEInput

SensoryMemory

WorkingMemory

Long TermMemory

Output

Learning

Attention Retrieval

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SensoryMemory • Types

• Capacity • Content• Duration

Attention

SensoryMemory

Must have ATTENTION!Directed by Working Memory.

WorkingMemory

• Content

• Duration

• Capacity

• Parts- Central exec

- Phonological

- Visual-Spatial

Working Memory

Input Sensory

Phonological

Visual-Spatial

CentralExecutive

Long Term

Learning and Retrieval

LearningWorkingMemory

Rehearsal

-Maintenance

-Elaborative

Memory = Encoding

• Pay attention• Rehearse• Process at a Deep

Level– Shallow – Deep – Deepest

• Elaborate• Construct images• Organize

RetrievalWorkingMemory

Affected by:

Prior knowledge

Emotions

Senses

Long TermMemory • Capacity

• Duration

• Content

Types of Long Term Memory

Long Term Memory

Declarative(Explicit)

Procedural(Implicit)

Explicit (KNOWING THAT)

• What you’ve experienced (episodic) in your life.

• What you’ve learned (semantic), not relative to your life.

Implicit (KNOWING HOW)

• Procedural

• Conditioning, habituation

• Priming

• Skills

The triny twerples twitled tattingly.• What were the

twerples doing?

• How did they twitle?

• What kind of twerples were they?

Getting stuff in and out…

• Metacognition

• Meaningful

RetrievalLearning

• Mnemonics

• Memorization (rote)

-ness

Mnemonics• How did you

memorize the lists from before?

• Types– Loci– Acronyms – Acrostics– Songs– Etc.

Rote Memorization

“Memorization is what we resort to when what we’re learning doesn’t make

sense.”

Forgetting

• Decay

• Interference

So, for teaching• Get their attention!• Teach kids to organize

information to remember it.– Images– Stories– Mnemonics

• Make it meaningful! (Context)