Assignment #2

1. What is psychomotor learning?
Psychomotor learning is learning involving mental processes that control muscular activity.
An example of psychomotor learning could be when a child uses their hands as drums to keep a steady beat.

2. What is cognitive learning?
Cognitive learning deals with the acquisition of knowledge.
An example can be when the teacher shows the child what each musical note means and how to draw them.

3. What is affective learning?
Affective learning is associated with a feeling response to music.
An example can come from how scientist say that children are affected by certain kinds of music such as; rap, country, and so forth.

4. What is the difference between teacher-centered and child-centered learning? Give a musical example.
Teacher-centered is when the teacher is a lecturer who presents material to the class by defining and explaining.
For example, the teacher stands in front of the class doing a beat and the child is supposed to follow suit.
Child-centered learning actively involves the students in the learning process. The students try to solve a problem that is given by their teacher.
For example, the teacher would just say make a beat and the child is to create their own beat based on how they think it should sound.

5.Students learn through a combination of their senses. Some learn fast through visual sense, others may learn more quickly through aural senses. What do you think about your learning style? In general, what kind of learner are you? (In which way, you learn faster and better?
I feel as if I am a visual learner. If I can see something done then I will process it more quickly. I also have a slight photographic memory allowing me to remember things that I have seen very well. I believe this is the reason in which I love math so much.