Cognitive revolution
Cognitive revolution is an essential element that has emerged in the study of the human brain as it opens the human mind studies to more than the ordinary narratives about the brain that we have always learned about. Rosser-Majors (2017) rightfully asserts that the cognitive revolution is offering more solutions to the issues at hand, especially those involving the mind and the general cognitive processing. As we will later learn, especially from the presentation by Dr. Boyd, this segment will and is making so many positive impacts to the researchers like herself who are trying to come up with more lastly solutions to the issues that are affecting the human mind such as strokes.
Information processing is much compared and understood by the functioning of a typical computer. The computer takes in information, organizes it, and gives output on the same information at the required time. Similarly, the human brain takes in a lot of data every time every day and integrates the same information. All these are the fundamental way we can explain information processing.
Arguments have since emerged over the alleged downfall of behaviorism after the propagation of cognitivism ideology. Rosser-Majors (2017) points out that behaviorists argue that cognitive processes are part of behaviorism and should not be ranked uniquely separate and be seen as to contradict the normative behavioral approach. Behaviorists define learning as behavior that requires practice and repetitive frequency to reinforce. Cognitivism, however, tends to take a different approach as they suggest that learning is a processing practice. In other words, if the two schools of thought are seen to be opposing one another.
I believe that cognitive theorists are more accurate in their explanation and definition of learning. Just as Rosser-Majors (2017) claims, it is not a question of who of the two is right or wrong, but which approach is more convincing than the other. It is for this reason that I find the cognitive school more persuasive to approve than the behaviorist school.
After analyzing my life experiences and listening to Dr. Boyd give her presentation, I agree that my schemata have immensely changed over the years. In my younger years, for instance, I used to find difficulty in culminating hard work, something I do quite easily today.
Dr. Boyd has indeed presented a different version of what I have grown associating learning to. In contrast to my earlier knowledge, I have learned that learning is associated with behavior, and with practice, one can learn virtually anything, however difficult we thought it to be. The changes that Dr. Boyd explains affect those suffering stroke and other mental issues as their minds also change and accommodate their conditions, making them difficult to be reversed. She, however, suggests that for anyone to succeed in learning, they need to practice more of those behaviors that they aspire to learn.