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Cognition and thinking

Many animals can learn, but humans are unique in that:

• complex language
• repository of knowledge - culture/society
• metacognition

Our memory is not like a camera

1. it is incomplete
2. it is inaccurate - interpreted rather than literature
3. it is not permanent

Teaching and learning

• we do not naturally know how to learn and remember
• we do not naturally know how to teach

Strategies

• Self
  • don't try to remember all
• look for patterns
• fit existing knowledge
• Teaching
  • provide framework
• provide reason

• Encoding information
  • verbal labels
  • symbols
  • behaviours
  • imagery
  • gist/ ubuntu
• Construction of meaning
  • self -gestalt –> closure —— — –
  • co-construction of meaning
    • mostly good, some bad (e.g. conspiracy theories)
• Organizing our thoughts
  • concepts
  • schema
  • scripts (for events)
  • personal theories
  • world views
• Self strategies
  • realize we may be wrong
  • seek out other perspectives
• Instructional strategies
  • explicitly teach new concepts

• 2020-08-26 created
• 2020-08-28 added Chapter 3