Development of cognitive abilities as educational goal

Educational Theories of Cognitive Development

Cognitive theories explain how behavior changes as a result of people’s perception, transformation, processing, storage and retrieval of information in contrast to behaviorist who focus on only observable facts. Cognitive psychologist, instead, claim that they could access to internal psychological processes through applying scientific techniques and systematic verifiable procedures to study hu...

The relationship of emotional and cognitive intelligence with educational development

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Forming Goal-directed Memory for Cognitive Development

Cognitive development [1] gives rise to the major challenge of skill acquisition, i.e., the learning of a new physical skill for object manipulation. This learning is very difficult because the system designer cannot specify a priori all the necessary robot actions depending on the latest states of objects and environmental conditions. Even slightly different environments or facing new objects ...

Infant Hand Preference and the Development of Cognitive Abilities

Hand preference develops in the first two postnatal years with nearly half of infants exhibiting a consistent early preference for acquiring objects. Others exhibit a more variable developmental trajectory but by the end of their second postnatal year, most exhibit a consistent hand preference for role-differentiated bimanual manipulation. According to some forms of embodiment theory, these dif...

The development of cognitive flexibility and language abilities.