Jerome Bruner
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Under Jerome Bruner's Cognitive Growth and Discovery Learning Theory, a central concept is the 'Spiral Curriculum,' defined as an advanced educational structure where difficult subjects or complex concepts are introduced at early developmental stages in a simple, concrete, and intuitive manner suited to the child's intellectual level. As the learner's age, maturity, and cognitive capacity increase, the same subject is revisited repeatedly in higher classes with greater depth, abstraction, and complex elaboration. Regarding its psychological implications and the scientific facilitation of students' cumulative knowledge construction, long-term memory, and logical development in classroom teaching, which of the following psychological statements is most authentic and scientifically valid?
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According to Jerome Bruner, the Spiral Curriculum is fundamentally built upon his famous hypothesis that "any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development."
- Core Idea: Basic concepts are revisited repeatedly (in a spiral fashion), expanding in depth and complexity over time.
- Cumulative Learning: This enables learners to build new knowledge on top of prior knowledge, fostering long-term memory and advanced cognitive schema formation.
- Evaluation of Options: Option (d) accurately captures this exact psychological and pedagogical premise, whereas options a, b, and c contradict the foundational principles of Bruner's theory.
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