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ERIC Number: EJ456633
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Cognition and Instruction: Their Historic Meeting within Educational Psychology.
Mayer, Richard E.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v84 n4 p405-12 Dec 1992
The emergence of cognitive approaches to instruction is traced, beginning with a historical analysis of the relationship between psychology and education, and continuing with an overview of learning as response acquisition, as knowledge acquisition, and as a knowledge construction. Examples of progress in cognition and instruction are provided. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Educational History, Educational Psychology, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction, Learning, Models, Reading Comprehension, Trend Analysis
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cognitively Oriented Curriculum Model; Knowledge Acquisition
Note: Based on a paper presented at the Mini-Conference on the Contributions of Psychology to Learning and Education (San Francisco, CA, August 1991).