Cognitive Psychology/Information Processing Case Study Analysis

Post your responses to the following questions on your blog.

1. After participating in this activity, what do you think the students will remember? How might those memories differ from those students would have if they only read about the Civil War in their textbook?

A. They will remember a lot more of the information because it became a real experience, and they can now relate to it. Just reading it doesn't give the full affect, it doesn't meet as many different types of learning levels.

2. How does Mr. West’s use of a Civil War re-enactment engage students’ emotions? What is the relationship between emotions and learning?

A. He assigns them one side Union or Confederate. This will make them to a point have the same feelings of the time and what the people were actually going through. Their emotional learning will be so much greater because again it will be relevant and real. Now they can tie the emotion into their learning which will stick in their memory more.

3. Based on the principles of dual-coding theory, what activities would be effective for Mr. West to use as a follow-up to the re-enactment?

A. Anything that will use visual and audio information. Also anything that will make them use a higher order of questioning. Stuff from their working memory, relevant questioning, things that will have meaningful responses.

4. Who do you think provides better instruction for his students? Support your answer from an information processing perspective.

A. Mr. Richards, will have better results because he is reaching more types of sensors. This will help reach different types of learners in many different ways, which will help them all retain more information.

5. How would you expect the students’ learning outcomes to differ depending on which teacher they had?

A. The outcome should be very different. Because in Richards class there is more diverse types of teaching to reach multiple types of learners. In Dunkins class there is only one type of teaching going on which could leave many students behind because that type of teaching doesn't work for them. Thats why as a teacher you need to educate in many diverse ways to give all of your students the same opportunity.