The most useful and interesting class I am taking is not even in my major, and I may not be able to continue taking it. But EDPS 854: Human Cognition & Instruction is crazy-useful.

Below are my notes for the latest lecture, where the processor’s comments are interposed with my own:

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Cognition and Instruction

Three Learning Perspectives
Behaviorism – establishment’s center
Cognition – insurgency’s center
Social Cognition — zone of contestment

Behaviorism
Model: ( S1 - [ R ) - S2 ] (stimulus - response and response - feedback)
“change implicit guidance & control”
strategy: repitition & reinforcement
mammalian / vertical thought

Cognition
Model: S1 - (COGNITION) - R - S2
“rearrange the minds”
build mental pictures
“remember ‘Dover, Delaware’ by thinking of Don DeLoise releasing Doves in his Underwear’”
human / horizontal thought

Social Cognition
“change in mental associations”
Model: (S1) - R - S2 (focus on Observation)
mimickery as learning
strategy: students oberve others interacting
observe someone else’s reinforcement
human / verticla thought (?)

Types of Attention
Automatic: Pre-Attention
Selective: Focul Attention

Automaticity
- taking in information and perform a task automatically
- rearrange minds, exploit implicit guidance & control
- enables fast OODA cycling
- relation to fingertip-feeling

Spectrum of Thought (?)
<--- automaticity ---- fingertip-feeling --- comprehension --->