Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things. As children grow older, their cognitive processes become sharper. related to the process of knowing, understanding, and learning something. adj. cognitive dissonance cognitive psychology cognitive science
Pertaining to cognition - that operation of the mind by which we become aware of objects of thought or perception It includes all aspects of perceiving, thinking, and remembering
Involving the process of knowing by thinking, comprehending, analyzing, or evaluation Example: Students use the cognitive process to be able to understand or gain meaning from spoken or written material by reasoning, making inferences, seeing relationships, etc
The mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes Cognitive also refers to attempts to identify a perspective or theory in contrast to emphasizing observable behavior
load (n ) A measure of how hard it is to make sense of a stimulus Cognitive load refers to the aggregate demand that a stimulus places on the sense-making capacity of the human mind The higher the cognitive load of the stimulus, the more of a challenge it is to master As familiarity increases, the cognitive load of the stimulus decreases For example, Web sites with clear and consistent navigation systems place a lighter cognitive load on users than do Web sites with confusing or inconsistent navigation systems
Intellectual Functioning How a student reasons and processes information Problem solving, concept formation measured by most tests of general intelligence
Learning is a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience This definition focuses on a change in mental associations, an internal change that we cannot observe BEHAVIORISM: Assumptions | History | Contemporary views | General implications | Summary | CLASSICAL CONDITIONING | OPERANT CONDITIONING --------------------------------- Overview of Behaviorism
A term that describes the process people use for remembering, reasoning, understanding, problem solving, evaluating, and using judgment Cognition, more simply, is what a person or child knows and under-stands, or the process of knowing
Involving the process of knowing by thinking, comprehending, analyzing or evaluation Example: Students use the cognitive process to be able to understand or gain meaning from spoken or written material by reasoning, making inferences, seeing relationships, etc
(Cog) Quitting (ABC model) - This is the method I used to quit smoking Basically it taught me how to retrain my brain so that I no longer think of cigs as the answer to life's stresses It is the reason I feel secure (for the first time) in this quit
Adjective to cognition, the awareness with perception, reasoning, judgement, intuition and memory, the mental process by which knowledge is acquired (CMD 1997)