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Cognitive structures

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

General principles or concepts that underpin knowledge, reasoning and understanding.  For learning to occur, it must be incorporated into existing cognitive structures, from which it follows that new experiences and prior knowledge overlap.

See Behavior mechanism, Bourbaki, Cognition, Cognitive development, Reasoning (psychology), Scheme, Sensorimotor realm

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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