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Social Cognitivism

From my observations in the classroom I have noticed the teacher using s ocial cognitive theory. She set rules in the classroom about cell phones and allows students to have extra time in class to play on their phones if they finish their work. This is the environmental factors of the students and impacts their personal factors by having them be motivated to get their phones to socialize. It also impacts students' behavioral factors by them either working faster to get their work done or working slower because they don't have a phone or don't want to use their phone that day. These are in the triarchic reciprocal causality .    I also noticed her use of vicarious punishment . She singles out students who are talking when she is instructing by calling them by name and asking them to be quiet. Other students see this and then they stop talking. I have also noticed that she shows other students anonymous work from the students to congratulate them on showing their work an...

Information Processing

What I have observed in my observations is that my coop teacher helps her students' learning through the sensory memory , working memory , and long term memory . She first writes things on the board while she talks about them which uses the iconic memory and echoic memory . She also gets students attention by telling them certain things will be on a test which falls under focused attention . She pauses after questions so that more students start paying attention when it is quiet and allows them time to think about the answer ( wait time ). She also does a hand clapping pattern that students have to repeat which makes them pay attention ( stimulus attention ). Her class room is very clean and organized to help the cognitive arousal . All of this together helps to move the memories from sensory to working memory.   In working memory the teacher since the teacher presents the information both verbally and audially it activates the executive function which helps students to...