Metacognition

Summary of Lesson Plan Gagne’s Instructional design is based on his conditions of learning. His holistic view on teaching gives structure and organization to instructor’s lesson plans. The model is designed to help student’s process mental events that occur with various types of stimuli that focus on learning outcomes. There are nine events that focus on specific aspects of learning. Event one is directed toward gaining the students attention, event two focuses on providing a learning objective,…

Joseph performance on the attention tasks during this testing exhibited variability. Joseph’s performance on visual attention task was below the threshold of statistical significance; however, it did demonstrate subtle difficulties in the area of detectability, inattention, response speed consistency. He also made slightly more anticipatory errors than others in his age group. There was slight reduction of speed noted during the later blocks. His response speed also showed slight decrease when…

At first he just moved the car forward and backward, then all of a sudden the car’s two wheels lifted up from the table, and the car landed on the fifth wheel that was located on the trunk of the car and began spinning. Anthony smiled wide and continued holding the certain controls to make it rotate. After about a couple minutes of it rotating, he stopped the car. He then controlled the car to move it forward and it fell onto the floor where the dog heard the noise and came running towards it.…

College is a new environment with plenty of distractions and lots of new responsibilities. This time of change is usually comprised of countless all-nighters and one too many cups of coffee. While many students can skate by using these techniques, according to CHADD, the national resource for ADHD, approximately “2 to 8% of the college population has ADHD”. ADHD is defined as “A chronic condition marked by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and sometimes impulsivity”. These students have to…

Single human beings learn to talk from the individuals and the environment that surround them. They began to form thought and self-thinking abilities. Humans then begin to discovery the complex idea of thinking. They embark on the process of metacognition, where they think about thinking. In addition, the process of learning is gained in this complex mixture of growth. How human intelligence works and thinks as a single entity is remarkable. In the end, this process of living is never the same…

consequences to episodes as well as anxiety sequences that are specific to different situations.” (Kearney, 110). This has never been something that I had considered doing but I can see a lot of benefit from digesting my experiences. I think that metacognition is a great way to change your attitude so having a planned and organized way to do that is a great way to make sure that the mental lucubration is happening. I want to start to keep a diary so that I can see what is happening throughout my…

Throughout a person’s lifetime, there will be various difficulties and struggles one will deal with and during this semester of Freshman Composition, I have achieved and overcome several different obstacles with my writing skills. Overall, I feel that I have made great strides and achievements in this class and the evidence can be located throughout my portfolio where my instructor can find proof of the following: attention grabbers otherwise known as the hook, the usage of 5-7 sentence…

Guided instruction and constuctivistic teaching are two instructional approaches. Guided instruction relies on the teachers to scaffold learning whereas constructivism relies on individual constructs, experiences, and adaptation. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. In addition, both approaches are affected by individual differences and developmental stages. Ultimately, constructivistic teaching is a much more effective approach because it incorporates so much more than…

Reflective Journal: It All Comes Together As my journey through Writing 39B comes to an end, I begin to reflect deeper on the spectacular experiences I have had. Coming in as a Computer Science major, writing was something that was not high up in my priorities in learning. Most of what I learned involved technical and literal logic that did not really apply to writing, or so I thought before taking this course. However, as time progressed and I really got a feeling for how important and…

An issue in developmental psychology that is a common topic of research is the question of whether or not the testimony of young children can be trusted. Can they recognize perpetrators or even remember events accurately? The answers to these questions should inform how children are questioned as eyewitnesses in the courtroom, and since many people aren’t as educated in this topic, it important for a policy to be implemented to ensure that findings from recent research are being used to…