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Categories of metacognition:
Person variable views himself as a learner and thinker. Knowledge of person variable refers to
knowledge about how human beings learn and process information, as well as individual knowledge of
ones learning process.
Task variable includes knowledge about the nature of the task as well as the type of processing
demands that it will place upon the individual. Knowing about what exactly needs to be accomplished.
Strategy variables involves awareness of the strategy you are using to learn a topic and evaluating
whether this strategy is effective.
Meta-attention awareness of specific strategies so that you can keep your attention focused on the
topic or task at hand.
Metamemory is your awareness of memory strategies that work best for you.
Omrods Practice of metacognition:
3 types of learner
1. preconserver looks at objects on only 1 dimension
2. transistional inconsistent, change answer when asked further
3. conserver consisted Piagetin his answer.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Jean Piaget cognitive theory of development.
Genetic epistemology theoretical framework of piaget
Schema an individuals way to understand or create meaning about a thing or experience.
Assimilation process of fitting a new experience into an existing or previously created cognitive
structure or schema.
Accommodation the process of creating a new schema
Equilibration achieving proper balance between assimilation and accommodation.
Maladaptaion
Trust
Psychological crisis
Trust vs. mistrust
malignancy
Mistrust
Virture
Hope
Ruthlessness
Virtuosity
Inhibition
Enertia
Purpose
Competence
5 adolescence
Fanaticism
Repudation
Fidelity
6 young
Promiscuity
Exclusion
adulthood
7 middle
Over extension
adulthood
8 late adulthood Presumption
Disdain
Psychological moratorium suggestions for adolescence, take a little time out.
Love
Care
wisdom
Level
Preconventional moral
reasoning based on concept
Stage
1
2
Conventional
3
4
5
6
Post-conventional
Description
Punishment obedience
Mutual benefit (scratch my back,
Ill scratch yours.)
Social approval
Law and order
Social contract
Universal principles
Just community enhance students moral development by offering them the chance to participate in
democratic community.
Community meeting center of approach implementation.
STUDENT DIVERSITY
Individual differences
Factors of diversity
1. Socio-economic status
2. Thinking/learning style
3. Exceptionalities
How student diversity enriches the learning environment
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Multiple Intelligences
1. Visual/Spatial Intelligence (picture smart)
Right brain
Simultaneous hemispheric style
1. Visual
2. Respond to tone of voice
3. Random
4. Processes information in varied order
5. Respond to emotion
6. Impulsive
7. Recalls peoples faces
8. Gestures when speaking
9. Less punctual
10. Prefers sound/music background while
studying
11. Prefers frequent mobility while studying
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Verbal/linguistic
Mathematical/logical
Bodily kinesthetic (body smart)
Musical
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Naturalist
Existential
Stimulus generalization
Spontaneous recovery
Discrimination
Higher order conditioning