ECI 660 - Cognition and Instructional Design: Cognitivism

Information Processing

All of these links are from the CogWeb Cultural Studies site. Roam freely!

Howard Gardner's classic Green Ideas Sleeping Furiously, which accounts for the early conflicts between Skinner and Chomsky that resulted in the Cognitive Revolution. Part one is the most important section.

Soon the computer was central in many theorists' minds, including Jackendoff: Conceptual Structures (1987).

Also, linguistics were considered greatly important. We look at a couple of good examples:

• Lakoff: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1987) (excerpts and discussion), a seminal book who's main points are listed here.
• Talmy: Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition (1988) (presentation).

Ausubel

The TIP database gives a good description of Subsumption Theory

A short paper outlining Ausubel and his importance in education.

 

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