cognitive framework
Thought-organizing structure
A cognitive framework is a mental structure that organizes how someone perceives, interprets, and responds to information.
It shapes what details seem relevant, what conclusions feel natural, and what questions get asked.
Different disciplines, professions, and cultures instill different cognitive frameworks: An economist and a sociologist bring different cognitive frameworks to the same problem.
The term appears in psychology, education, and organizational theory.
- schemasConceptual organizing structures
- constructivismActive knowledge-building theory
- mental modelsInternal representations for understanding
- mental mapInternalized spatial representation
- paradigmsAccepted models of thought
biases · rationalism · metacognition · critical thinking · problem solving · heuristics · epistemology · neural pathways · empiricism · scaffolding · learning styles · systems thinking · big picture · Piaget · phenomenology · pragmatism · structuralism · ontology
cognitive frameworkobjective reality
Existence independent of minds
cognitive frameworkgut reaction
Immediate unthinking feeling
instinct · intuition · reflex · knee-jerk response · mental confusion
cognitive, cognition, cognize, cognizance, cognizant, incognito, recognize, recognition, recognizable