Learning Theories, Task Two: Cognitivism/Constructivism Western Governors University

Key Elements of Cognitivism Cognitive psychologists study how the mind works and how it influences behavior. The study of the mind and how it absorbs information is also called the information-processing theory, which seeks to understand how people acquire new information, how they create and store mental representations of information, how they recall it from memory, and how what they already know guides and determines what how they will learn (Ryan, Cooper, & Tauer, 2013). Cognitivism is based on the following theories: that information is processed in stages, there are limits on how much information can be processed at each stage, and that previously learned information...