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Education 173 Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings Memory

Education 173 Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings Memory. Fall Quarter 2007. Problems With Behaviorism. Research Showed That Humans: Are pre-wired They have native (innate) knowledge (Chomsky) Can learn by imitation Not always by direct reinforcement (Bandura)

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Education 173 Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings Memory

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  1. Education 173 Cognition and Learning in Educational SettingsMemory Fall Quarter 2007

  2. Problems With Behaviorism • Research Showed That Humans: • Are pre-wired • They have native (innate) knowledge (Chomsky) • Can learn by imitation • Not always by direct reinforcement (Bandura) • Have goals and purpose • Even rats! (Tolman) • So, Behaviorism Can’t Explain Everything.

  3. An Alternative To Behaviorism • Can the Computer Provide Us With a Metaphor for Human Thinking? • Computers have Different Kinds of Memory. • So Do Humans.

  4. Two Kinds of Memory • Short-Term Memory • What are you thinking about right now? • Your current thoughts • Only a few at a time! • Thoughts are fleeting • Long-Term Memory • What is the totality of your knowledge? • Lots and lots of knowledge! • Different kinds of knowledge • People, words, mental pictures, facts, personal experiences, domain knowledge, skills (and so on).

  5. Short-Term Memory Small capacity 7±2 pieces of information Short duration Locus of consciousness Also called “working” memory” Long-Term Memory Large capacity Unlimited information Very long duration Multiple “codes” The warehouse of the mind The Duplex Model

  6. A Third Memory Structure:The Sensory Register • Noticeable In Real Life • Pardon me (hearing) • The double-take (vision) • Auditory Sensory Register (Echo) • Visual Sensory Register (Icon) • Common Properties • Very short duration • (< 2 seconds) • High fidelity • (raw, uninterpreted)

  7. Cognitive Architecture • The Sensory Register • Working Memory • Why “Working”? • Long-Term Memory • We Can Define Learning and Remembering in Information-Processing Terms • Learning is WM to LTM • Remembering is LTM to WM

  8. Spreading Activation of Thought • Thinking About One Idea Can Lead to Thinking About a Related Idea. • That’s Because, in LTM, Ideas Are Associated by Meaning. • Which Explains: • Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon • Almost remembering • But just below threshold of awareness • Thought Pathways • Wow! How did we get onto that subject? • Retrace your cognitive steps • In LTM, Words are Not the Only Way We Think.

  9. Mental Imagery • Dual Coding Theory • Learning can involve both words and images • Visual and verbal representations • Multiple ways to know and to remember • Are Mental Images Like Vision? • In some ways, yes. • Mental rotation; zooming. • In some ways, no. • Count the stripes

  10. Human memory is not like a video camera Your Tenth Birthday Party

  11. Production Systems • Two Kinds of Knowledge • Declarative (knowing that) • Procedural (knowing how) • Procedural Knowledge (If-Then Rules) • If red, then stop • In a restaurant • If you are finished eating, and • If you have money • Then call for check • Some Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programs Are Based Production Systems

  12. Chunking & Automaticity • There are Two Ways Around the Limitations of WM • Chunking • Seven what? Seven “chunks.” • But the size of a chunk can change • Automaticity • Driving a car • No distractions at first • But later . . . turn up the music and pass the burrito. • Complex Performance Relies on Chunking and Automaticity

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