ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the fundamentals of how the human brain functions, how information is received and processed in the mind, and how learning, remembering, and forgetting occur. Learning, in many ways, is the process of acquiring knowledge. This process can be viewed on a continuum from basic to complex. Basic learning involves such things as recalling names and dates, associating a word in English to its equivalent in Spanish, and chronologically listing the events leading up to the Civil War. More complex learning involves understanding the main ideas in a story, solving verbal problems in algebra, or comparing and contrasting the poems of two different authors. The chapter helps to understand and explain intelligence as a malleable trait. The chapter explains the benefits of a growth versus fixed mindset, and identifies how the information-processing system (IPS) operates.
