Class Development and Learning

It is responsibility of development and learning psychology to investigate the history of the development of an adult, accompanying the successive and progressive changes from the moment we are conceived.

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1. General principles of development 2. Developmental characteristics     2.1. Brain development     2.2. Cognitive development     2.3. Socio-emotional development 3. Language acquisition and development 4. Development and learning 5. Paradigms in learning theories     5.1. Behaviorism characteristics     5.2. Gestalt and cognitive theories characteristics 6. Learning theories     6.1. Behaviourist model            Operating conditioning            Social learning theory     6.2. Cognitive model            Piaget’s constructivism            Bruner concept formation            Significant learning of Ausubel            Information processing theory - perception and attention, memory and retrieval 7. Student-Centered Learning Models

The centrality of the teacher has long been questioned, especially at the level of Higher Education. The goal of all teaching is to provide the student's learning. Therefore, the methodology used in the class provides for a strong activity and intervention of the student to prepare, expose, discuss the topics addressed.

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