Cognitive theories of learning

Cognitive theories of learning deal with questions relating to cognition, or knowing (Lefrancois 1988:21). Cognitive learning theories seek to explain how the brain processes and stores new information.

• Information processing theory of learning
• Information processing process
• Schema theory of learning

• Learning theories

See the following online articles for more information:

• Cognition and Amerindian students of linguistics
• Cross-cultural research applied to teaching reading

• Overview module: Cognitive theories of learning
• In overview module: Learning theories, by Patricia M. Davis
• In overview module: Learning research, by Patricia M. Davis
• In overview module: Reading and learning research, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor) and Leah B. Walter (contributor)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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