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The Cognitive Revolution

"The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin"
Why Cognitive science provides a unified model of learning.

Brief Outline
Why should we use the Cognitive Science model of learning  instead of combinations of progressive and traditionalist (behaviourist) models?

And why we should not be using the unempirical models devised by Herbert Spencer, his inheritors Dewey and Piaget or other theorists such as Vygotsky or theories such as Multiple intelligences.

"Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory.

Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist."

Steven Pinker
"The three laws of behavioral genetics may be the most important discoveries in the history of psychology. Yet most psychologists have not come to grips with them, and most intellectuals do not understand them … . Here are the three laws:
  1. The First Law. All human behavioral traits are heritable.
  2. The Second Law. The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes.
  3. The Third Law. A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families"
Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate (2002)

The Unified Learning Model

Motivation

Viral Photos Of Homeless Boy Using Restaurant Light To Study Prompts Local Authority Intervention

Knowledge

Source: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition

Multi memory model

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