COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE IN PSYCHOLOGY

The word cognition refers to perception of world around us, some aspects of learning, memory, and comprehension of our social environment. In other words, cognition refers to the processing of information that we receive through the senses. Such processing is the basis of the experience we have, which we call mind. Differences in the ways we process information may lead to differences in behaviour. According to cognitive perspective, humans can best be characterized as information processing organisms. In seeking to understand why people behave as they do, the processes that are most relevant to examine are how people take in information through their senses and how they process it to yield any behaviour. Learning and storage in memory of what is learned provide the basis of thinking. But how learning progresses may reflect innate human tendencies interacting with a given environment.