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Contemporary cognitive psychology has focused upon problems of perception and memory, an emphasis that has led to an apparent decrease of research in the area of learning.1 A reasonable question to ask, therefore, is whether the cognitive movement has neglected the study of learning, or whether cognitive psychology has incorporated the concept of learning, but has done so under a different terminology.
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Voss, J.F. (1978). Cognition and Instruction: Toward a Cognitive Theory of Learning. In: Lesgold, A.M., Pellegrino, J.W., Fokkema, S.D., Glaser, R. (eds) Cognitive Psychology and Instruction. Nato Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2535-2_3
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