Elephants have the largest brain size verses body weight other then man. An elephant?s brain at birth is 35% of adult weight. The largest known specimen of the African Savanna elephant is on display at the Smithsonian?s National Museum of Natural History. It stands 13 feet tall and weighed 22,000 lbs. An elephant?s trunk can be used to snorkel under water.
Learning theories are conceptual frameworks describing how information is absorbed, processed, and retained during learning.Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained.utside the realm of educational psychology, techniques to directly observe the functioning of the brain during the learning process, such as event-related potential and functional magnetic resonance imaging, are used in educational neuroscience.
Cognitive psychology is the scientific investigation of human cognition, that is, all our mental abilities â perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, reasoning, and understanding. The term âcognitionâ stems from the Latin word â cognoscereâ or to know.