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Remembering that includes describing the actions of Piaget's work specifically highlights how individuals
the model in various ways, it can be various verbal steps or construct knowledge from their interactions with
visual images or both. In order for behavior to be experiences and objects they encounter. Piaget argues,
remembered, it needs to be repeated. Retention can be without interacting with objects or experiences, a person
facilitated through mental repetition and actual practice. will not be able to construct knowledge in his mind.
If the student anticipates getting reinforcement when The implications of Piaget's constructivist theory (in
imitating the actions of a model, the student is more Slavin, 1994: 45) are as follows:
motivated to pay attention, remember, and produce that Focus on thinking or mental processes, and not just on
behavior. In addition, reinforcement is important in the results. In addition to the truth of students, the
maintaining learning. teacher must understand the process used by the child to
arrive at the answer.
According to Bandura (in Woolfolk, 1995: 235) Prioritizing the role of students in self-initiative and
identify three forms of reinforcement that can encourage active involvement in learning activities. In the
learning through observation. First, the observer can classroom, the presentation of ready made knowledge is
produce model behavior and receive immediate not emphasized, but children are encouraged to find their
reinforcement. Second, reinforcement does not have to be
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