Concept is a thought or idea that’s conceived in the mind. Concept is a mental representation of a category , class or group of objects, events, people, etc. It helps us to organise our thinking and enable us to think and communicate with speed and efficiency. A new born child doesn’t born with any concepts. She/ he must create the concepts, alone or with others. Since no concept or idea ever stand alone . Once we conceptualised, a thing integrated into the network of our ideas. We conceptualise things socially, culturally or environmentally by the means of our society, language, geographical condition. For example, if Someone ask you, what is cat? You may say, ‘A mammal, carnivorous, friendly animal. Similarly if someone ask you, what is
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Though the processes of adaptation, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration, we build, change, and grow our schemas which provide a framework for our understanding of the world around us. For instance, as young children, we may encounter pet cats. We recognise the typical characteristics of these animals (e.g. furry, walk on four legs, miaow, have whiskers around their mouths) and gradually create in our minds a schema of a cat. The next time we see an animal, we will use the schema to identify it as being a cat: if it resembles our schema, we consider it to be a cat. But if we see a horse instead, the animal does not conform to our schema and we do not consider it to be a cat.Once we are told that this is a different animal called a horse, we will modify our existing schema for a horse and create a new schema for a horse. Now, let's imagine that if we see a miniature horse for the first time and mistakenly identifies it as a …show more content…
Through our new experiences, our existing schemas are modified and new information is learned.
Cognitive map is a mental representation of the layout of one's physical environment. The was first identified by Tolman (1948) explains how rats learned the locations of rewards in a maze. A cognitive map provided the rat with a useful model of the environment. For example, when a friend asks you for directions to your house, you are able to create an image in your mind of the roads, places to turn, landmarks, etc., along the way to your house from your friend's starting point. This representation is the cognitive map.
Enactive: it is encoded in our memory as a action based learning , for example, muscular memory like touching, moving hands or manipulating an object. A baby could remember her first muscular memory in form “shaking a rattle or saying bye bye” where as for adults swimming, typing , riding a cycle, etc.
Iconic: this information is usually stored in the form of image and refers to as mental picture. For instance, image of mother’s face which is very first image of a child’s
Though the processes of adaptation, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration, we build, change, and grow our schemas which provide a framework for our understanding of the world around us. For instance, as young children, we may encounter pet cats. We recognise the typical characteristics of these animals (e.g. furry, walk on four legs, miaow, have whiskers around their mouths) and gradually create in our minds a schema of a cat. The next time we see an animal, we will use the schema to identify it as being a cat: if it resembles our schema, we consider it to be a cat. But if we see a horse instead, the animal does not conform to our schema and we do not consider it to be a cat.Once we are told that this is a different animal called a horse, we will modify our existing schema for a horse and create a new schema for a horse. Now, let's imagine that if we see a miniature horse for the first time and mistakenly identifies it as a …show more content…
Through our new experiences, our existing schemas are modified and new information is learned.
Cognitive map is a mental representation of the layout of one's physical environment. The was first identified by Tolman (1948) explains how rats learned the locations of rewards in a maze. A cognitive map provided the rat with a useful model of the environment. For example, when a friend asks you for directions to your house, you are able to create an image in your mind of the roads, places to turn, landmarks, etc., along the way to your house from your friend's starting point. This representation is the cognitive map.
Enactive: it is encoded in our memory as a action based learning , for example, muscular memory like touching, moving hands or manipulating an object. A baby could remember her first muscular memory in form “shaking a rattle or saying bye bye” where as for adults swimming, typing , riding a cycle, etc.
Iconic: this information is usually stored in the form of image and refers to as mental picture. For instance, image of mother’s face which is very first image of a child’s