cognitivism
Mental process focus
Cognitivism names several related philosophical positions united by the idea that mental states involve knowledge or belief.
In ethics, cognitivism holds that moral statements can be true or false—that murder is wrong expresses a belief about reality, not merely an attitude.
In psychology, cognitivism emphasizes internal mental processes like thinking, memory, and problem-solving, in contrast to behaviorism's focus on observable actions.
In aesthetics, it holds that art conveys genuine knowledge about the world.
Theory of knowledge
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- intentionalityPurposeful action quality
- representationDepiction or likeness
Organized representational structure
- PiagetChild cognition researcher
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- attentionFocused mental awareness
- memoryMind's retention capacity
problem-solving · decision-making · psycholinguistics · Beck
Temporary exterior work platform
- encodingConverting data to format
- retrievalAct of getting back
- chunkingDividing into manageable parts
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
epistemology
Theory of knowledge
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- intentionalityPurposeful action quality
representation · functionalism · Chomsky · externalism · foundationalism
schema
Organized representational structure
- PiagetChild cognition researcher
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- attentionFocused mental awareness
memory · problem-solving · decision-making · psycholinguistics · Beck
scaffolding
Temporary exterior work platform
deliberation
Careful weighing of choices
- justificationReason proving rightness
modularity
Divisibility into independent units
- psychologypsychology, psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, clinical psychology
- ismscapitalism, socialism, communism, anarchism, racism
- philosophiesempiricism, stoicism, nihilism, idealism, materialism
- -ismsatomism, postmodernism, feminism, Marxism, Darwinism
- modern thoughtexistentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, postmodernism, pragmatism
- instructional designlearning objectives, instructional materials, learning outcomes, course design, backward design
cognitivismbehaviorism
Psychology studying observable conduct
recognize, recognition, recognized, cognitive, incognito, recognizing, recognizable, cognition, unrecognized