student development and the learning process

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what are the nine cognitive processes that are generally associated with academic learning?

critical thinking

creative thinking

questioning

inductive reasoning

deductive reasoning

problem solving

planning

memory

recall

what is critical thinking?

to apply, analyze, evaluate, compare, and synthesize information

what is creative thinking?

to create, develop, and understand new perspective

what is inductive reasoning?

to reason by working from a specific concept to a general topic

what is deductive reasoning?

to reason by working from a general topic to a specific concept

what is problem solving?

to use a variety of thinking stages to generate or evaluate solutions

what is planning

to prepare

what are the two types of memory?

working and descriptive

what is working memory

used to process the current task or siuation

what is descriptive memory?

used to carry out a procedure or remember information over a long period of time

what is recall?

to retell

a kindergarten teacher facilitiates a learning project where students work together to design and create a pirate ship with recycled materials. Through her instructional design, what cognitive process is the teacher expecting students to use to complete the task?

creative thinking

who were the theorists that contribute to academic learning?

Jean Piaget

John Dewey

Jerome Bruner

Erik Erickson

Lev Vygotsky

Albert Bandura

Lswrence Kohlberg

Benjamin Bloom

what was Piaget known for?

his stages of cognitive development. aka framework for how students develop intellectually through various stages.