CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Experts in the medical field use existing knowledge stored in long term memory to make diagnoses (Kulatunga-Moruzi et al., 2004)
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Information processing is a cognitive theoretical framework that focuses on how knowledge enters and is stored in and is retrieved from our memory. It is one of the most significant cognitive theories in the last century and it has strong implications on the teaching-learning process.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cognitive psychology helps in the treatment of conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. It also has an impact in the area of education, as it helps teachers assess their students’ learning abilities and develop and adapt more suitable teaching strategies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cognitive medicine is aiming at creating specific knowledge about the relationships between disease processes, cognitive functions and disabilities. There is a need to establish new tools for identification of cognitive impairments in various medical conditions.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “working memory” was coined by Miller, Galanter, and Pribram, and was used in the 1960s in the context of theories that likened the mind to a computer. In 1968, Atkinson and Shiffrin used the term to describe their “short-term store".

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