'Cognition' - Ortega, L.

'Cognition' - Ortega, L.

1. Information processing

   • Skill acquisition theory
     • Learning from controlled to automatic performance
       • Long-term memory
       • Working memory
   • Human mind as a symbolic processor that engages in mental processes through Input and Output
   • Key assumptions
     • Representation and access
     • Automatic or Fluent Voluntary or Controlled
     • Attention and memory are limited
   • Attention
     • Limited
     • Selected
     • Voluntary
     • Access to conciusness
   • Types of learning
     • Incidental
     • Implicit
     • Explicit

2. My thinking

   • I found this reading interesting and accurate. The text presented the concepts in a clear and organized way that shows how the mental processes can be found in the brain and how we can use it to improve the way we learn a language. I could easily recognize the different paths our brain takes to process information.