3.4 Learning and cognition

• Explain the role of one or more cognitive biases in decision-making.

• Explain classical and operant conditioning as ways of learning.

• Apply operant conditioning to change behaviour.

• Explain the value of dual processing theory in thinking and decision-making.

• Explain the role of schema in behaviour and/or cognition.

• Explain social learning theory in learning and apply it to explain and change behaviour.

• Explain the role of one or more biological factors in one or more cognitive processes.

• Explain the value of one or more cognitive models in one or more cognitive processes.

• Explain the role of one or more cultural factors in one cognitive process.

• Explain the influence of one or more environmental factors on one cognitive process.

• Explain one or more strategies to improve one or more cognitive processes.

• Conduct a true or quasi-experiment, such as memory, attention, anchoring bias or music-and-memory tasks.