The Learning Processes of Kermit

As I read the story of “Kermit and the Keyboard” I began to think of the learning processes that he engages himself in as he tries to accomplish learning task as it relates to playing the keyboard. In this story three cognitive theories can be recognized, analyzed and they are all believed to produce different learning outcomes. These three theories are the Cognitive Information-Processing Theory, The Piaget’s Theory of Development as it relates to learning and lastly, The Interactional Theories of Cognitive Development. Each one of these theories presents itself in the manner in which Kermit develops a strategy for learning how to play the keyboard.
In the cognitive information-processing approach declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge and memory play a part in completing a learning task. In the story, Kermit displays declarative knowledge which is the act of knowing when he notes the signature and the key. These tell him specifically how many beats per measure in combination with how many sharps or flats exist in the music. The procedural knowledge is the how to knowledge. This is generated when he actually learns how to read the music and plays the keyboard. The memory aspect of the cognitive information-processing theory comes into play when he uses his procedural knowledge, retrieved through memory to support him in developing a reaction, which is the pressing down of the key which is in correlation to the indicated score to produce the appropriate sound. This whole process of the cognitive information-processing is the act of being able to conduct a way to recognize the content of a given text and relating its outcome of what you recognize to what you already know to formulate a new learning outcome. In the case of Kermit, he had to try to read the music that he was unfamiliar with by trying to recognize symbols