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Download full textSlate, John R.; Charlesworth, John R., Jr. – 1988
The information processing model, a theoretical framework of how humans think, reason, and learn, views human cognitive functioning as analogous to the operation of a computer. This paper uses the increased understanding of the information processing model to provide teachers with suggestions for improving the teaching-learning process. Major…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
Prescott, Peggy-Lynn – 1976
The effects of visual, and verbal/visual, preorganizers and postorganizers on the learning of unfamiliar information were evaluated in an experimental study involving 153 community college students. Pre- and postorganizers were used in connection with a 20-minute lesson on the theory of communication. A 25-item, multiple-choice criterion test was…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, Learning Processes
Andre, Thomas – 1977
A model is proposed for memory that stresses a distinction between episodic memory for encoded personal experience and semantic memory for abstractors and generalizations. Basically, the model holds that questions influence the nature of memory representations formed during instruction, and that memory representation controls the way in which…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
