LEARNING
BIOLOGY COGNITION AND LEARNING
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The way we take in information from the outside world, how we make sense of that information and what use we make of it.
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The summation of our behaviors
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The ability to form new memories
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The physiological evidence of thought, such as neural and biochemical activity in the brain
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Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of cognitive influence on how we perceive the world – that modulates late vision – are visual search and attention (Treisman, 1993). Knowing the color or shape of an object helps a person to quickly identify that particular object in a cluttered visual scene (Wolfe and Horowitz, 2004).
Detailed explanation-2: -Cognition is a term for the mental processes that take place in the brain, including thinking, attention, language, learning, memory and perception. These processes are not discrete abilities – they are a raft of different, interacting skills which together allow us to function as healthy adults.
Detailed explanation-3: -We need cognition to help us understand information about the world around us and interact safely with our environment, as the sensory information we receive is vast and complicated: cognition is needed to distill all this information down to its essentials.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Different Cognitive Processes The first step in the cognitive learning process is attention. In order to begin learning, a student must be paying attention to what they are experiencing.