UNFOLDING THE MENTAL SELF
Cognition, memory, and intelligence will be three important things that I want to talk about here. Cognition is defined as the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and senses. With that definition alone, I think I may have covered this part. But going deeper into it, cognition is something that an individual has that empowers them to hold up in their own way. It's the higher process of thinking that makes a person special since the mental section truly is complex.
Memory is where knowledge is stored to be used later on. It could be short-term, long-term, or sensory memory. After learning these three, I realized that there is only so little in my long-term memory. Only actual times I loved and things that must be remembered to be able to get a job. Short-term memory occurs a lot in online classes nowaday, and I am sorry. With the pandemic going on, I still haven't adjusted so at one moment I thought I was learning something new and valueable, then moments later I totally forget. I still think having to make use of the memory is important and crucial for most things today.
Intelligence is defined as the person's capacity for learning, planning, understand, solving problems with logic, and creativity. These are the "smart" people we all know. I also found it interesting that there are multiple intelligences that are unique for each individual. I took a test and got the result of being musically intelligent. I was pretty happy about it knowing I am a music freak. I learned that we can't really define a person's intelligence based on what they about things. There may be things that I know that others don't understand as much and vice versa. So in a way, I guess what I learned is that everyone is actually intelligent.
With cognition, memory, and intelligence working together, then comes human learning. Human learning is taken all from those three mentioned. It is mostly from experience and education, but we barely notice that we learn every day. By successfully doing small tasks, we learn. By doing mistakes, we learn. I personally know this because I have tons of mistakes in my life and I have learned from it. I learned that human learning is long-term. I use the word 'learn' a lot in this blog and that just proves human learning.