Activities Connecting Process to Practice
1. Why is it important for instructional designers to understand different perspectives on how people think?
2. You are having a discussion with a client. Your client says he recently read an article about behaviorism and cognitivism,
but he isn’t certain whether he clearly understands how each views human thinking. He asks you if you could help him
3. You have been asked to give a brief talk about how perspectives on how humans think and learn have changed over time. What would you include as major topics to discuss?
4. What are some of the most common myths about the brain?
5. What might a simple training session to teach someone how to properly change a flat tire look like if you took a
behaviorist approach in design the training? How about if you took a cognitivist approach or a constructivism approach? 6. Create a chart that describes the major components of behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism.