Referring to the developmental area that involves thinking skills, including the ability to receive, process analyze, and understand information 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 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 (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 Having to do with knowing or understanding Mental, as opposed to physical (behavioural) Of, or relating to, unmeasurable, but observable, mental processes a term that describes the process used for remembering, reasoning, understanding, and making decisions Intellectual Functioning How a student reasons and processes information Problem solving, concept formation measured by most tests of general intelligence involving mental development Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power The part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions of or being or relating to or involving cognition; "cognitive psychology"; "cognitive style of or being or relating to or involving cognition; "cognitive psychology"; "cognitive style" aware, perceptive -involving cognition 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 Having to do with a person's thoughts, beliefs, and mental processes including intelligence a term that describes the process people use for remembering, reasoning, understanding, and using judgment Thinking skills and abilities including understanding and reasoning Refers to cognition; the mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment 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 Adjective to cognition, the awareness with perception, reasoning, judgement, intuition and memory, the mental process by which knowledge is acquired (CMD 1997) 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 – The process of thinking and acquiring knowledge Refers to a mental process of reasoning, memory, judgement and comprehension - this is in contrast to emotional processes brain functions related to sense perception or understanding thought processes 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 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 Awareness with perception, reasoning and judgement, intuition, and memory; The mental process by which knowledge is acquired 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 Relating to thinking (cognition) with regard to cognition; "cognitively skillful by knowing, by perception with regard to cognition; "cognitively skillful"