Discipline-Based Literature Review

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the following required sources and begin searching for scholarly articles to read to be applied to your literature review:

  • Writing a Literature Review (Links to an external site.)
  • The Traits of Reciprocal Determinism in Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk (Links to an external site.)
  • The Cognitive Revolution: A Historical Perspective

Remember to keep a copy of these instructions open while you write the paper. This will help you include all required sections.

Learning and cognition is a broad discipline. For this Discipline-Based Literature Review, you will research at least four peer-reviewed articles published within the last ten years to support your analysis of just one of the following topics. You may choose the area that is of most interest to you:

  • Operant and classical conditioning
  • Reciprocal determinism
  • The effects of modeling on learning
  • The cognitive revolution
  • The effects of self-efficacy on learning

In your analysis of your chosen topic, explain the theoretical perspectives and empirical research that are pertinent to the field of learning and cognition. This analysis should be developed robustly to support your success in completing the final project for this course.