COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AS A BASIS FOR TEACHING RUSSIAN AND KYRGYZ UZEK LANGUAGES IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS OF KYRGYZSTAN (COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, CONCEPT THEORY, A. N. LEONTIEV’S THEORY OF ACTIVITY

Abstract

In this article, based on the study of the concept of operant conditioning (OC) by the well-known American psychologist Skinner, drawing on A. N. Leontiev’s activity theory, analyzing the theoretical postulates of cognitive psychology, and also relying on Piaget’s theory of child development, as well as examples from specific historical events of the last century, the possibility of improving the quality of content and methods of teaching non-native languages (English and Russian) in schools and universities of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan is theoretically substantiated.

Among the important discoveries of recent years is the establishment of a connection between the thinking process and corresponding physiological activity, as well as models of human cognition, perception, attention, memory, higher cognitive processes, and so on.

A comprehensive study of cognitive psychology includes the evaluation of all components interwoven into the most delicate pattern of the mental life of our species. This branch of cognitive science has begun to displace others from textbooks. Cognitive psychology is, above all, the science of the human mind: thoughts, reasoning, language, memory, and the role of sensory stimuli.