Cognition and instruction: Their historic meeting within educational psychology.

The purpose of this article is to examine the emergence of cognitive approaches to instruction, with hope that an understanding of the origins of this field will yield perspective on where it is going. First, an historical analysis of the relation between psychology and education, especially cognitive psychology and instruction, is undertaken. Then, an historical overview is provided of the progression of 3 views of learning and instruction: learning as response acquisition, learning as knowledge acquisition, and learning as knowledge construction. Next, cognitive theory is examined in more detail, with a particular focus on cognitive processes involved in learning