COGNITIVE THEORY 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ FULL
SOLUTION
◉ Recognition. Answer: the ability to match a piece of information
or a stimulus to a stored image or fact (Identifying something or
someone from previous encounters/memories)
◉ Metacognition. Answer: higher order knowledge about your own
thinking as well as your ability to use this knowledge to manage
your own cognitive processes (like problem solving) (thinking about
thinking)
◉ Organization. Answer: the combining, arranging, recombining,
and rearranging of behaviors and thoughts into coherent systems
◉ attention. Answer: to learn through observation, we have to pay
attention. This includes selective attention and maintaining focus.
◉ Why is attention important for us as teachers. Answer: we must
ensure student attention on important parts of the lesson
, ◉ How do we choose what we pay attention to. Answer: what we
pay attention to is guided by what we already know and what we
need to know.
◉ Is attention easy?. Answer: No. It takes effort and is a limited
resource
◉ Hippocampus. Answer: part of the temporal lobe that helps form
memory and process emotions
◉ encoding. Answer: converting sensory input into a form that can
be stored and accessed later
◉ Phonological loop. Answer: holds verbal and sound info and keeps
it active by keeping it "in the loop"
◉ How much info can we keep in our phonological loop. Answer: as
much as we can rehearse in 1.5-2 seconds (like reciting a phone
number)
◉ visuospatial sketchpad. Answer: holds visual and spatial info
◉ episodic memory. Answer: memory of events that we have
experienced, so we are able to explain when the event happened