Meaning of cognition and its role in learning

Cognition is basically the processes and internal body structures that are concerned in the obtainment and use of knowledge. These internal structures and processes include sensation, language, attention, learning, perception, thinking, memory, and reasoning (Sci-Tech Encyclopedia, 2008). In other words, cognition is simply the mental process of perceiving or knowing the things, words, and other information that people encounter everyday. In general, cognition, as well all its associated process, play major in everyday life, particularly in discovering and learning new things.Its mechanism is an interaction between processes that are knowledge-driven and processes that are sensory in nature; and also between automatic processes and controlled processes (Sci-Tech Encyclopedia, 2008). The learning process actually begins when one is exposed to a stimulus, which causes the construction of a sensory representation such as an echo, ima ... ge, or icon. This representation then encodes all the surface characteristics of the stimulus which may include its loudness, shape, location, color, and pitch.Furthermore, all the encoded characteristics mentioned above are mainly short-lived, which is why they almost immediately go through an analysis stage and object recognition stage where memory and perception comes in (Sci-Tech Encyclopedia, 2008). In short, the process above describe conceptual knowledge or how a person conceives what he hears, touch, or sees through communication. The...

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What Is Social Learning Theory? During the first half of the 20th-century, the behavioral school of psychology became a dominant force. The behaviorists proposed that all learning was a result of direct experience with the environment through the processes of association and reinforcement. Bandura's theory believed that direct reinforcement could not account for all types of learning. For example, children and adults often exhibit learning for things with which they have no direct experience. Even if you have never swung a baseball bat in your life, you would probably know what to do if someone handed you a bat and told you to try to hit a baseball. This is because you have seen others perform this action either in person or on television. While the behavioral theories of learning suggested that all learning was the result of associations formed by conditioning, reinforcement, and punishment, Bandura's social learning theory proposed that learning can also occur simply by observing the actions of others. His theory added a social element, arguing that people can learn new information and behaviors by watching other people. Known as observational learning, this type of learning can be used to explain a wide variety of behaviors, including those that often cannot be accounted for by other learning theories. Core Concepts of Social Learning Theory There are three core concepts at the heart of social learning theory. First is the idea that people can learn through observation....

Whether you are “cognizant” of it or not, cognitive learning has played a huge part in your development, ever since you were a baby learning how to walk. We learn mainly through your interactions with others, experiences, friendships, feelings, and to be frank; you don’t stop learning until the day your body sheds its mortal shell. How you were raised by your parents, family and other adults define who you are and why you do the things that you do. In this article, I will discuss the pivotal role the brain plays in your education and sometimes miseducation. Understanding how the brain works can help you to learn more efficiently. If you attended a public school in the U.S., you probably remember being bombarded with mundane facts by your teacher, then studying and memorizing the same information when you made it home. Memorize, repeat, memorize, repeat is how many teachers used to teach, but is that the most efficient way to learn? Rote memorization of facts does not help you to understand how to use the information that you have learned, or to apply it to new situations. It is remembering information without giving it a deeper meaning, which makes it impossible to learn. The way that you learn shapes who you are as a person, especially as a child. Despite the education research that we have regarding cognitive learning, it still isn’t being applied in the classroom. We need to use brain science to find the best learning strategies for each student’s learning style, and tr...

Pat Mccaw Pat McCaw MD is a family physician and author. She earned her BS in Biology and MD in Medicine from the University of Iowa in 1998. She subsequently received her MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University in 2016. She works part-time in family medicine while pursuing her love of writing. She has over 20 years of medical experience with an excellent grasp of the sciences, sociology, behavior, and emotional health. She writes middle grade and young adult fiction, and has experience with professional blog content from GILI Sports. She also maintains her own blog, Pat's Chat, and teaches online classes to educators on inventive ways to use picture books in the classroom to augment their curriculum, and fun exercises to teach creative writing. • Instructor Cognitive learning can involve a series of steps. Initially, attention is needed to focus on the subject, while language is necessary to understand written and verbal input. After processing the information, it can be stored in memory to be accessed again. The steps enable someone to learn new things and to make decisions. The cognitive learning definition refers to the mental pathways used to comprehend, learn, and communicate. Cognition involves the processes used to think, remember, solve problems, speak, imagine, and think. These pathways allow humans to gather facts, think about them, and combine the new information with what was previously learned in order to grow their knowledge base. So, what is cogniti...

Metacognition by Nancy Chick Cite this guide: Chick, N. (2013). Metacognition. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Retrieved [todaysdate] from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/metacognition/. Thinking about One’s Thinking Metacognition is, put simply, thinking about one’s thinking. More precisely, it refers to the processes used to plan, monitor, and assess one’s understanding and performance. Metacognition includes a critical awareness of a) one’s thinking and learning and b) oneself as a thinker and learner. Initially studied for its development in young children (Baker & Brown, 1984; Flavell, 1985), researchers soon began to look at how experts display metacognitive thinking and how, then, these thought processes can be taught to novices to improve their learning (Hatano & Inagaki, 1986). In How People Learn, the National Academy of Sciences’ synthesis of decades of research on the science of learning, one of the three key findings of this work is the effectiveness of a “‘metacognitive’ approach to instruction” (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000, p. 18). Metacognitive practices increase students’ abilities to transfer or adapt their learning to new contexts and tasks (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, p. 12; Palincsar & Brown, 1984; Scardamalia et al., 1984; Schoenfeld, 1983, 1985, 1991). They do this by gaining a level of awareness above the subject matter: they also think about the tasks and contexts of different learning situations and themselves as lear...