Category: C

Responses to situations that may require reflection and selection from among strategies. By hypotheses, children must learn to inhibit fast incurring associative responses before they can consistently make cognitive responses.  

The study of knowledge and awareness, e.g., perception, attention, and information processing, SR learning theories. The study of the processes of reasoning and decision making.  

One of the three theoretical perspectives in social psychology. The cognitive orientation emphasizes the thought processes that organize and interpret the properties of the environment, behaviorist orientation; rule-role orientation.  

In education, learning or instructional outcomes that stress the acquisition of knowledge and intellectual skills, cognitive domain.  

That aspect of metacognition that consists of keeping track of how one is doing on some task and regulating one’s behavior accordingly.  

A segment of a conception of learning that holds that people acquire segments of knowledge of what is where, cognitive theory.  

Perceived stress that occurs when a person labels something negatively in the mind.  

The theory that one’s characteristics must be taken into account in addition to the various stimuli and responses when explaining learning.  

A theory which asserts that emotions are an interpretation of the autonomic arousal in view of the situation to which they are attributed.  

A life-view that emphasizes the place of intellectual activity and choice in human decision-making.