Cognitive and Neuro-Physiological
Theories
Introduction
 Cognitive and Neuro-physiological Theory’s
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Jean Piaget
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Schemata, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration
Computer science, education, and developmental
psychology.
Donald Hebb
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Conceptual demonstration, brain, and nervous system.
Computational machines and artificial networks.
Contributions of Jean Piaget
 Contributions to Development Psychology
 Greatest Sociologist in the Modern Age
 Views on Children Cognition and Learning
Contributions of Donald Hebb
 Conceptual Demonstration
 Hebbs Learning Fundamental Principles
 Distinctions between Motivation and Learning
 Education
Jean Piaget Model
 Equilibration
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Assimilation, Accommodation and
Interiorization
 Stages of Development
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Sensorimotor
Preoperational Stage
Concrete Operations
Formal Operations
Donald Hebb Model
 Restricted and Enriched Environments
 Cell Assemblies
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Phase Sequences
 Arousal Theory
 Memory
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Long and Short-term
 Sensory Deprivation
Piaget’s Framework
 Milestones in development
 Sequence of transformation
 Acquisition of Equilibrium
Hebb’s Framework
 Environment shapes learning
 Optimal Arousal
 Reticular activating system (RAS)
Modern Day Relevancy
 Understanding the development of learning in
children
 Influence on education
 Impact in the computer science field
Modern Day Relevancy
 Hebbian Cell-Assembly
 The Hebb synapse
 Computational machines
 Artificial neural networks
Conclusion
 Cognitive
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Jean Piaget
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Equilibrium and Stages of Development
Contributions to Education and Computer Science
 Neuro physiological
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Donald Hebb
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Contributions to education, neuroscience,
motivation, and learning.
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