Definitions for "Cognitivism"
See cognitive psychology.
In contrast to behaviourism this school of thought claims that psychology should be concerned with a person's internal representations of the world and with the internal or functional organization of the mind. See also computationalism, functionalism.
In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical approach in understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by quantitative, positivist and scientific methods, and that such functions can be described as information processing models.
In ethics, cognitivism is the view that ethical sentences express propositions and can therefore be true or false (they are truth-apt). See also non-cognitivism.
Keywords:  theory, learning
(learning theory)