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What Is Meant by Cognitive Structures? How Does It Influence Teaching –Learning of Psychology?


 
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1. Title Title of document What Is Meant by Cognitive Structures? How Does It Influence Teaching –Learning of Psychology?
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country C. Girija Navaneedhan; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai; India
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country T. J. Kamalanabhan; Professor & H.O.D, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai; India
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Psychology
 
3. Subject Keyword(s) Cognitive structure, Metaphorical thinking, Mental Representations, Intellectual framework and Teaching/Learning process
 
4. Description Abstract

Cognitive structures are the basic mental pattern people use to process any information. Metaphorical thinking being one of the mental tool present innate in human beings which when practiced consciously could help developing cognitive structures in turn help to process information. According to Jean Piaget and William Perry learning is facilitated by the mechanism comprising symbolic representations of the mental processes that is actively constructed by the learners based on the existing cognitive structures. Therefore, teaching/learning process should focus on the development of existing intellectual framework. Unlike the behaviourist approach, knowledge is acquired by the learner through intentional mental representations derived from past learning experiences. Teacher’s role is to facilitate the learners with resources to build new knowledge to old and to modify the old to accommodate the new. The present paper focuses on how cognitive structures help in processing information by implementing metaphorical thinking statements in teaching/leaning process.

 
5. Publisher Organizing agency, location IRA Academico Research
 
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7. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 2017-05-28
 
8. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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9. Format File format PDF
 
10. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://research-advances.org/index.php/IJEMS/article/view/833
 
10. Identifier Digital Object Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v7.n2.p5
 
11. Source Title; vol., no. (year) IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies; Vol 7, No 2 (2017): May
 
12. Language English=en en
 
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14. Coverage Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) India
 
15. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright (c) 2017 IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (ISSN 2455-2526)