A trunk The nose of the elephants is called the trunk.
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.Behaviorists look at learning as an aspect of conditioning and will advocate a system of rewards and targets in education.ognitive, 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. Behaviorists look at learning as an aspect of conditioning and will advocate a system of rewards and targets in education.
Noun. 1. cognitive psychology-an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes. psychological science, psychology-the science of mental life.memory-the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; he taught a graduate course on learning and memory. problem solving-the area of cognitive psychology that studies the processes involved in solving problems.ognitive science-the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind.