May 30, 2022 • 35m • 301 views

In this session, Prashant Singh will discuss the concept of cognitive psychology in the classroom. Piaget (1969) argues that we are motivated to learn when our existing schemata no longer allows us to make sense of the world, this leads to the cognitive state of disequilibrium. He further argues that as disequilibrium is an uncomfortable state (e.g. not knowing, being unsure), we are motivated to discover what we need to know to achieve equilibrium in our cognitive states once more