The Importance Of Learning Attivation

It talks about on page 282 that instead of being passively influenced by environmental events, people choose, practice, pay attention, ignore, reflect, and make many other decisions as they pursue goals. This made me think of the question if kids choose to not pay attention and ignore the things they are supposed to be learning how do we motivate the student to want to learn and pay attention? The cognitive approach suggests that one of the most important elements in the learning process is what the individual brings to new learning situations. I’m in my first field experience this semester and after reading this it made me think of a little boy in my class. His parents does everything for him at home and when he is at school he is not open

Perception is recognizing the stimulus and giving it a meaning. What we pay attention to is guided to a certain extent by what we already know and what we need to know. Attention is also affected by what else is happening at the time. I’m the type of student that has to read and study in silence. If there is other things going on I can’t focus on what I’m doing I just focus on what is going on next to me. I’m an early childhood major and I think it is import for it to be quit when students have reading time on their own. When learning how to read it is important to be focused. Multitasking is when you switch back and forth from one task to another. I think multitasking can be beneficial, but not when driving or doing homework. When driving you should be focused on the road and your safety. While staying off social media and your cell phone while doing homework and studying you achieve a lot more a lot faster. Social media and your cell phone are just another distraction. Many factors in the classroom influence student’s attention. Bright colors, underlining, highlighting, calling student by name and surprise events and lighting are all ways to gain

Extraneous cognitive load is the cognitive capacity you use to deal with problems not related to the earning task. Germane cognitive load comes from deep processing of relevant information. Maintenance rehearsal is repeating the information in your phonological loop. Elaborative rehearsal involves connecting the information you are trying to remember with something you already know. Information may be lost from working memory through interference or decay. When my mom tells me to clean my room the information gets lost in my working memory from decay. Declarative knowledge is knowledge that can be declared through words and symbols systems of all kinds. Procedural knowledge is knowing how to do something such as divide fractions or design a website. This connects with the math class I’m in right now. In the math class I have to explain why and how you do the math problems. In high school and my other college math class they didn’t explain why you did certain things. They just said you can do it that way because. Self-regulatory knowledge is knowing how to manage your