cognitive learning
piaget's work gave a major impetus to cognitive psychology and to research into
the part played by inner mental activity in human behavior (Sperry,1993). Opposing classical behavioral notions,cognitive theorist affirm that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but also by subjective human attitudes, values and aims. Cognitive phychologists view the contents of conscious experience and their subjective qualities as dynamic, emergent properties of brain activity (inseparably interfused with and tied to the brain's cellular and biochemical properties and processes).
these phychologists are finding that mental schemes often called "scripts" or "frames"
function as selective mechanisms that influence the information individuals attend to,how they structure it, how much importance they attach to it , and what they then do with it (Vander Zanden, 1987). As we noted earlier in this chapter, psychologists are also finding that people actively engage their environment, earlier different stimuli, and devise their actions accordingly.