Cognitive Constructivism

Question 1

Key features

Answer 1

1. Assimilation - Learning builds on what students already know and can do
2. Accommodation - Knowledge is actively constructed through a process of discovery
3. Sequential/ schematic - Learning follows a sequence of stages

Question 2

What is it ?

Answer 2

Focuses on the way a person makes sense of new information by linking it to what they already know and then drawing new conclusions

Question 3

Schema

Answer 3

A way of thinking about something or doing something

Question 4

Piagets four stage of development

Answer 4

Each stage children’s thinking showed specific characteristics

Question 5

Bruner’s three models of representation

Answer 5

Three ways of storing information