AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The successful learner can link new information with existing knowledge in meaningful ways. The successful learner can create and use a repertoire of thinking and reasoning strategies to achieve complex learning goals.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is constructivism? Constructivism is the theory that says learners construct knowledge rather than just passively take in information. As people experience the world and reflect upon those experiences, they build their own representations and incorporate new information into their pre-existing knowledge (schemas).

Detailed explanation-3: -Building on students’ prior knowledge is rooted in constructivism, which posits that learners have to actively construct their own knowledge rather than passively receive it. This means learners make meaning of new concepts only when they “integrate them into their existing structures of knowledge, ” or schemas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Knowledge construction is a collaborative process which aims to produce new understanding or knowledge which exceeds something that anyone alone could not achieve. It is also essential that knowledge construction is based on each others’ ideas and thoughts.