Psychology · Contexts
LCOG — Learning and cognition
Psychology · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes
Conditioning as a way of learning: classical and operant
Learning through association and through consequences, how conditioning is understood, and applied to change behaviour, across the biological, cognitive and sociocultural approaches.
Social learning theory
Learning by observing and imitating models, the mediational processes that make it more than mimicry, and its use to explain and change behaviour.
Schema theory and the reliability of cognition
Mental frameworks built from experience that guide perception and memory, explaining why cognitive processes are reconstructive and systematically unreliable.
Thinking and decision-making: dual processing and cognitive biases
Two systems of thinking, one fast and one slow, and the cognitive biases that fast thinking produces when we make decisions.
Cognitive models of a cognitive process (memory)
How simplified models such as the multi-store and working memory models make an unobservable cognitive process testable, and where they fall short.
Biological, cultural and environmental factors in cognition, and improving it
The biological, cultural and environmental factors that shape a cognitive process, and evidence-based strategies for improving it.