Across
- 3. change, process of revising or overhauling an existing theory or belief system in such a way that new, discrepant information can be better understood and explained
- 5. Base, existing knowledge to which they can connect whatever new info and skills they’re trying to master
- 6. construct general understandings and belief systems
- 8. knowledge, they learn how to do things
- 9. long-term change in mental representations or associations
- 12. beliefs that are inconsistent with commonly accepted and well-validated explanations of phenomena or events
- 15. central to information processing theory
- 18. enable them to categorize objects and events
- 20. getting confused, forgetting English meaning
Down
- 1. process of remembering previously stored info- finding it in memory
- 2. memory, where learners store their general knowledge and beliefs about the world, the things they’ve learned from formal instruction and their recollections of events in their personal lives
- 4. processing of putting what is being learned into memory
- 7. when a schema involves a predictable sequence of events related to a particular activity
- 10. when they try to learn and remember something without attaching much meaning to it
- 11. search of long-term memory
- 13. Psychology, large body of research that addresses numerous mental phenomena that underlie human behavior, including perception, memory, forgetting, and reasoning
- 14. processing theory, cognitive psychologists have offered many explanations of how people mentally process and remember new info and events
- 16. learners pull some concepts together int general understandings of what things are typically
- 17. modifying the info in some way
- 19. knowledge, conscious of what it is we know