cognitive

(adjective)

the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective functions which deal with emotions

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Examples of cognitive in the following topics:

  • Piaget

    • Piaget's theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence.
    • His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology. " He believed answers for the epistemological questions at his time could be better addressed by looking at their genetic components.
    • Piaget's theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence.
    • The pre-operational stage is the second stage of cognitive development.
    • It is the process of taking one's environment and new information and fitting it into pre-existing cognitive schemas.

  • Setting Goals

    • Setting goals affects outcomes in four ways: by improving choice, effort, persistence, and cognition .
    • Finally, by cognition, we mean that goals can lead individuals to develop and change their behavior.
    • Through choice, effort, persistence, and cognition, they can prepare to compete.
    • Give examples of the ways in which improving choice, effort, persistence, and cognition affect outcomes in goal-setting

  • Psychological Approaches to the Self

    • The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive or affective representation of one's identity.
    • The psychology of the self is the study of the cognitive or affective representation of one's identity.
    • Current psychological thought suggests that the self plays an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity.

  • Theoretical Perspectives on Childhood Socialization

    • Theories of childhood socialization and development study the elements of the cognitive and social development that occur in childhood.
    • These theories seek to understand why childhood is a unique period in one's life and the elements of the cognitive and social development that occur in childhood.
    • One of the most widely applied theories of childhood is Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
    • This video explains Piaget's theory of cognitive development and includes footage of the type of experiments Piaget performed to develop his theory.

  • Language and Perception

    • This principle holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize his or her world (worldview) or otherwise influences their cognitive processes.
    • The strong version states that language determines thought and emotions/feelings, and linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories
    • The strongest form of correlation is linguistic determinism, which holds that language entirely determines the range of possible cognitive processes of an individual.
    • This position often sees the human mind as mostly a biological construction, so that all humans sharing the same neurological configuration can be expected to have similar or identical basic cognitive patterns.
    • Cognition and Communication Research Centre film describing recent research on the mapping between language and perception, and whether the language one speaks affects how one thinks.

  • Stereotypes in Everyday Life

    • Stereotypes are useful for the human brain because they operate as a heuristic or a cognitive mechanism to quickly gather, process, and synthesize information.
    • People use stereotypes as shortcuts to make sense of their social contexts; this makes the task of understanding one's world less cognitively demanding.
    • In line with the reasoning that describes heuristics, distinguishing oneself from others is a cognitively necessary step; it allows us to develop a sense of identity.
    • Given the social and cognitive necessities of heuristics, the problem with stereotyping is not the existence of the cognitive function.

  • Adolescence

    • Adolescence is a period of significant cognitive, physical and social development, including changes in family and peer relationships.
    • For example, researchers in neuroscience or bio-behavioral health might focus on pubertal changes in brain structure and its effects on cognition or social relations.
    • As individuals develop into mature adolescents, there is an increase in the likelihood of a long-term relationship, which can be explained by sexual maturation and the development of cognitive skills necessary to maintain a romantic bond (e.g. caregiving, appropriate attachment).
    • Cognitive autonomy is characterized as the manifestation of an independent set of beliefs, values and opinions

  • Adolescent Socialization

    • Adolescence is a transitional stage of biological, cognitive and social development that prepares individuals for taking on adult roles.
    • In studying adolescent development, adolescence can be defined biologically as the physical transition marked by the onset of puberty and the termination of physical growth; cognitively, as changes in the ability to think abstractly and multi-dimensionally; and socially as a period of preparation for adult roles.
    • Cognitive advances encompass both increases in knowledge and the ability to think abstractly and to reason more effectively.
    • Early in adolescence, cognitive developments result in greater self-awareness, greater awareness of others and their thoughts and judgments, the ability to think about abstract, future possibilities, and the ability to consider multiple possibilities at once.
    • This constant increase in the likelihood of a long-term relationship can be explained by sexual maturation and the development of cognitive skills necessary to maintain a romantic bond, although these skills are not strongly developed until late adolescence.

  • Combining multiple views

    • We would be collecting "cognitive social structure" data; that is, reports from actors embedded in a network about the whole network.
    • A cognitive social structure (CSS) dataset contains multiple actor-by-actor matrices.
    • While we could use many of the tools discussed in the previous section to combine or reduce data like these into indexes, there are some special tools that apply to cognitive data.
    • Figure 16.8 shows the dialog of Data>CSS, which provides access to some specialized tools for cognitive network research.

  • Reference Groups

    • Reference groups become the individual's frame of reference and source for ordering his or her experiences, perceptions, cognition, and ideas of self.
    • Reference groups become the individual's frame of reference and source for ordering his or her experiences, perceptions, cognition, and ideas of self.