ALD 320: Cognition, Human Learning and Motivation


The main website for this class has been moved to a password protected area.  What you see here is the final set of materials available to the students for the semester.

Syllabus

Calendar

Sample essay that would receive the high points of 3 plus an explanation of why.

How to figure your grade so far

Last Assignment description

Unit 3:  Motivation and Behavior Theory

Study guide

 

Practice Exam and Answers

 

Lecture notes

 

            April 26:   Implementing Behaviorism

April 17:   Behavior theory, Guidelines for praise, Guidelines for punishment

April 12:   Classical Conditioning

April 3, 5, 7:  Motivation

 

            In-Class Activities

 

                        April 26:  Implementing Behaviorism

                        April 19:  Behavioral Conditioning

                        April 12:  Classical Conditioning

                        April 5:  Motivation

 

Unit 2:  Metacognition, Self-regulation, Constructivism, Transfer, and SLT

 

Study guide

List of Terms

Instructions for learning self-analysis paper (due 2/27)

Practice Exam and Answers

 

Lecture notes

 

March 20 and 22:  Social Learning Theory

March 6 and 8:  Transfer of learning

March 1:  Instructional methods using groups

Feb. 27:  Teaching Self-regulation ;  Constructivism

Feb. 20-22:  Self-regulation

Feb. 15:  Metacognition

            In-class Activities

 

Feb. 20: Self-regulation

                        Feb. 27: Self-regulation

                        March 8: Transfer

                        March 22: Social Learning Theory

 

Unit 1:  Cognitive Theory

 

Study guide

Exam One Review Exercises

Practice exam for unit one

Lecture notes

 

Feb. 6:  Designing instruction

Feb. 1:  Concept learning

Jan. 30:  Retrieving learned information

Jan. 23 and 25:  The cognitive model and how we learn information

Jan. 18:  Why a Cognitive Theory?

The GAMES model

 

In class Activities

 

Feb. 6-8   Designing instruction

Jan 30th:   Attention, Perception, and Encoding

Jan 25th:   Memory

Jan. 18th:  GAMES

If you have comments or suggestions, email Dr. Svinicki at msvinicki@mail.utexas.edu

Or Ari Dubin at ejdubin@mail.utexas.edu.