Where are we now? "Nature" Liberal Radical
What is learned?
Humanistic
Maturation "Nurture" Culture
Gestalt Developmental factors Learning "styles"
Cognitive Theories
Sensory buffer Structure Ideas about learning
"Intelligence"
Short-term memory Long-term memory
Memory
Semantic Forms of LTM
08/11/2005 - v4
Procedural Narrative
Maslow's hierarchy Herzberg's motivational hygiene Stimulation and stress
Motivation
Classical conditioning
Behavioural Theory
Operant conditiong Angles
Anticipatoryavoidance learning Learned Helplessness
Assimilation
Piaget and after
ccommodation
Developmental psychology
Stages of development Conserving potential
Conditions of development
Maturation
Gestalt
Concept "IQ" Significance
Intelligence
Aptitude
Political issues "Talents"
Field dependent/ independent Honey and Mumford Sensory modalities
The brain is not neutral
Cognitive theories of learning
Cognitive
Constructivism Social
Serialist and Holist Convergent and Divergent
"Insight" learning
Learning styles
Personal constructs
Vygotsky - ZPD
Conversational approaches
Necker cube
Faces or Vase?
Which circle in the middle is bigger?
What is it?
Dog sniffing among leaves
Old or young woman?
Insistence on mostly likely version
Which side is the light coming from?
Even when the parts make sense, but the whole?
M C Escher, Waterfall, 1961.
Dolphins
Put up your hand up when you can see at least seven dolphins.
What are they?
More silly pictures
Knowledge/ skill
Learning curves
Notional behavioural curve Time
Learning curve (2)
Knowledge/ skill
“Ah-hah” or “knack”
Notional Gestalt curve Notional behavioural curve Time
Köhler’s chimps 1
Köhler’s chimps 2
(1925)
Betty the crow
Mechanisms of “adaptation”
(Piaget)
Assimilation
Accommodation
Assimilation & Accommodation 2 Assimilation
is when we modify practice to suit theory Accommodation is when we modify theory to suit practice
Summary
Can’t leave mind out of it. Mind makes meaning
Search for patterns („Gestalt”)
“Trial and error” can take place in a purely mental form So need to study mental processes Development Learning styles