Cognitive Foundations for Educational Strategies

Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation

Extending the proposal made by Schulz (2003), we put forward a pragmatic account of the meaning of existential and universal FC items, where the ‘ignorance or indifference’ inference triggered by the former and the ‘universal’ inference triggered by the latter are treated as implicatures obtained by standard Gricean reasoning formalised in terms of the two operations grice and competence. On th...

Foundations of cognitive psychology

1Introduction How doesmemory work? How doweunderstandlanguage, andproduce itsothat others canu nderstand?How dow eperceiveour environment? How dow ei nfer from patterns oflightorsoundthe presence ofobjects inour environment,andtheir properties? How dowereason,andsolveproblems? How dowethink? Thesea resomeofthe foundationalq uestions thatcognitivepsychology examines. Theyarefoundationalpartly be...

Cognitive Foundations of Probability

Prediction is based on past cases. We assume that a predictor can rank eventualities according to their plausibility given any memory that consists of repetitions of past cases. In a companion paper, we show that under mild consistency requirements, these rankings can be represented by numerical functions, such that the function corresponding to each eventuality is linear in the number of case ...

COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS of GRAMMAR

Educational Motivation Improvement Strategies for Postgraduate Students: Nominal Group Technique

Introduction: One of the most important factors in studentschr('39') learning process is academic motivation that can affect different aspects of studentschr('39') performance in educational environments and directly affects their academic success. Motivation is also considered as the key to learnerschr('39') learning. The main goal of this study is to provide ways to increase educational motiv...