1. What's the difference between Piaget's view on development by giving more difficult tasks to students and the Vygotsky scaffolding approach? They seem very similar to me.
2. I'm still a little confused on the differences between working memory and sensory memory. Why is working memory so much better?
3. What makes a model so important to the learner according to the behaviorist theories on learning?
2. I would say the main different between working memory and sensory memory is that you don't really even notice the sensory memory. It is random bits of information floating about. The feeling of holding your pencil while taking notes, the smell of the chalk. If the brain took the time to acknowledge every single little thing, you'd be going crazy! So it tunes this stuff out to focus on the more important things. When something from sensory memory is great enough to attract your attention, then you've moved into working memory. You have a short span of time to actually encode this data. You know it is there and you know it exists and now you work on remembering it later on.
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