Educational Psychology

Chapter 8 Learning Goals

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

 
Discuss the importance to teachers of understanding cognitive approaches to learning.
 
Describe the standard memory model.
 
Explain the process of encoding knowledge into three memory stores.
 
Describe the different types of storage in long-term memory.
 
Describe the working-memory models of memory.
 
Describe the levels-of-processing model of memory.
 
Describe the various tasks used to assess students' memories.
 
Discuss how to facilitate students' retrieval.
 
Describe retrieval failure, and the theories associated with forgetting.