Cognition and Constructivism: Understanding Knowledge Construction
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What is the primary function of the cognitive process of attention?

  • To allow people to focus on a specific stimulus in the environment (correct)
  • To facilitate decision-making and problem-solving
  • To enable individuals to express thoughts through language
  • To store information in memory

According to the theory of constructivism, how do learners acquire knowledge?

  • Through passive reception of information
  • Through memorization and repetition
  • Through active construction and discovery (correct)
  • Through direct instruction by the teacher

What is the primary function of the cognitive process of perception?

  • To take in information through the senses and respond accordingly (correct)
  • To facilitate language comprehension
  • To engage in higher-level reasoning and decision-making
  • To encode information in memory

Which cognitive process involves the ability to understand and express thoughts through spoken and written words?

<p>Language (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main focus of individual constructivism?

<p>Child-centered and discovery learning (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which cognitive process is responsible for encoding, storing, and retrieving information?

<p>Memory (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the core idea of Social Constructivism?

<p>Knowledge exists in a social context and is initially shared with others. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which theorist rejected the idea that learning is the passive assimilation of given knowledge?

<p>Jean Piaget (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the process of modifying existing cognitive structures to account for new experiences?

<p>Accommodation (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of providing negative instances in concept learning?

<p>To provide a comparison to positive instances (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for an organized body of knowledge about something?

<p>Schema (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of applying Constructivism in facilitating learning?

<p>To make learners understand and construct knowledge (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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