Cognitivism

1. Cognitivism is "the psychology of learning which emphasizes human cognition or intelligence as a special endowment enabling man to form hypotheses and develop intellectually

2. ALSO KNOWN AS cognitive development

3. PRINCIPLES #1: Learning Should Be More Focused and Purposeful. #2: Learning Should be Self-Directed. #3: Learning Should Come from Discovery and Analysis

4. FOUNDER Noam Chomsky

5. The three main cognitive theories are: - Piaget's cognitive developmental theory - Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, - Information-processing theory.