All posts filed under: cognitive development

Seeking

December 28, 2018
by stevesouth
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blown away / cognitive development

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world – few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to a whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. – The Vampire Lestat, pp. 332-333, Anne Rice

Mind’s eye

December 28, 2018
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cognition / cognitive development

No one starts out knowing how cognitive functions, cognitive development and life experience affect what we are able to see and how it is seen. However, you can learn how cognition affects what you can and can’t see, and how you understand what you see. That is its own step along the path of cognitive development. Once you have learned that, you can see more, see farther, and see more clearly. There is no other […]