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Michael Domjan; Andrew R. Delamater – APA Books, 2023
Through four previous editions, students and instructors have relied on this book's clear, concise, and highly accessible overview of the processes and mechanisms responsible for conditioning and learning. Domjan and Delamater summarize major theories of how humans and nonhuman animals learn, along with the classic experiments that support these…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Learning Processes, Video Technology, Neurosciences
Almarode, John; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Corwin, 2021
The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How can educators best create the learning experiences students need to truly learn? "How Learning Works: A Playbook" unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Experience, Context Effect, Classroom Environment
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Willis, Judy – Childhood Education, 2007
The past two decades have provided extraordinary progress in our understanding of the nature of learning. Never before have neuroscience and classroom instruction been so closely linked. Now, educators can find evidence-based neuroimaging and brain-mapping studies to determine the most effective ways to teach, as advances in technology enable…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Memory, Brain, Cognitive Processes
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Hansen, Linda; Monk, Martin – International Journal of Science Education, 2002
Reviews evidence of the way the maturation of the brain may structure the plasticity that is available for the construction of the mind. Presents evidence taken from non-invasive imaging techniques that makes use of electrode potentials, magnetic resonance, or positron emission. Discusses the development of the brain in terms of grey and white…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Science Education
Brethower, Dale – Journal of College and Adult Reading and Learning, 1990
Argues that the mission of the university is to create intelligence. Defines intelligence, discusses research on cognitive processes of learning, and discusses obstacles to using the demonstrate-label-coach-mastery strategy emphasizing the value of the clinical approach used to teach seven specific skills. Presents a classroom illustration of this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Intellectual Development
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Dubert, Lee Ann – Clearing House, 1987
Describes two techniques, behavior checklists and response tickets, for grading group activities designed to stimulate critical thinking. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Grading, Group Activities
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Masztal, Nancy B. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1986
Describes a classroom technique that promotes higher levels of thought and enhances learning in graduate and undergraduate teacher education classes. (DF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Group Instruction, Higher Education, Information Processing
Lindenskov, Lena; Hansen, Eigil Peter – 2000
This study explores how adults' perspectives, intentions, blockages, resistance, and fascinations are reconstructed during a mathematics course in adult basic education. These aspects are discussed as important building blocks for developing theory in adult educational research. Adult mathematics education was compared in different institutional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes
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Kohn, Art – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Describes a classroom activity featuring a simple stay-switch probability game. Contends that the exercise helps students see the importance of empirically validating beliefs. Includes full instructions for conducting and discussing the exercise. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Intuition
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McIntosh, William J. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2000
The same issues in science education have been discussed since the 1930s. Discusses the structure of college education and focuses on what students should know and be able to do. Points out the changes in college science instruction. (Contains 11 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Henderson, Garry – Australian Science Teachers' Journal, 1999
Argues that diagram interpretation is largely text-dependent and is also dependent upon the use of particular diagram-processing skills which may be very difficult to develop. Discusses some interpretation difficulties and advances strategies to help teachers make more effective use of diagrams. (Contains 20 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Diagrams, Foreign Countries, Illustrations
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McDermott, Dana P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1988
Examines three errors and learning difficulties found to be typical in general chemistry, gives the source of each problem, and presents a method of correcting each problem. Suggests using analysis of examination errors for the purpose of altering instruction for the improvement of student learning. (CW)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, College Science, Higher Education
Gere, Anne Ruggles, Ed. – 1985
Written by teachers, the chapters in this book show how writing fosters learning in math, science, English, social studies, foreign language, philosophy, psychology, and art. Following an introduction by Anne Ruggles Gere, the first chapter, "Writing to Learn: The Nurse Log Classroom," by Steve Pearse, presents a comprehensive overview…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Education, Instruction
McNeil, John D. – 1983
Noting that researchers in the fields of cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and linguistics are taking a constructivist view of reading comprehension, this paper undertakes a comparison of that view with views concerning comprehension that have been expressed at the Claremont Reading Conferences over the past 50 years. The first…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Educational Theories
Hodges, Daniel L. – 1982
As an aid to increasing teacher effectiveness, this paper outlines findings derived from the field of cognitive psychology on the way in which memory operates, provides examples, and suggests a variety of ways the information can be applied in teaching. Among the findings cited are the following: (1) some types of information can be encoded (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Community Colleges, Learning Processes
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