Cognitive Processes or Domains
In science, cognition is the set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge: attention, memory and working memory, judgement and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc.
More simply cognition means the ways that our brain works to make sense of our environment and learn. As our brains are all uniquely shaped by our physical uniqueness and experience everyone's brain is different.
There are four cognitive domains or areas that we look at when we try to understand how someone learns:
When do we use these in the classroom and when learning?
More simply cognition means the ways that our brain works to make sense of our environment and learn. As our brains are all uniquely shaped by our physical uniqueness and experience everyone's brain is different.
There are four cognitive domains or areas that we look at when we try to understand how someone learns:
- Verbal comprehension - how we receive and express verbal information and language
- Perceptual reasoning - how we use visual and spatial information, recognize patterns, diagrams and maps
- Memory - how well we can hold information in our memory or remember information while performing a task (i.e. working memory) and for longer periods of time (i.e. long term memory)
- Processing Speed - how effectively we take information in and how efficiently we work with it
When do we use these in the classroom and when learning?