Week # 02

WEEK # 02

UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge is a mixture of facts, procedural rules and heuristics.Facts are generally statements which states truth, for example "all humans are mortal". Procedural rules are a sequence of action where as heuristic is based on experience which we gather through are lifetime for example "if I study hard I will get good marks".There is another thing called Intelligence it is the ability to apply appropriate knowledge. Memory is past events which have gone through such as school time , an event etc memory can be called according to will. Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes.

Data is raw facts about something , when we process that data it is called information because we have given some meaning to it. after giving meaning to a raw fact when we understand that information then it is classified as knowledge.

There are two perspectives of knowledge Subjective and Objective. In subjective reality is basically created when we interact with other individuals , it is an ongoing processes.In objective the reality is not dependent on human perceptions and it can be structures in category and concepts.

There are different types of knowledge which are as follows 

• Procedural Knowledge : This knowledge is based on known facts and it can be explained to someone through steps.

• Declarative Knowledge : This Knowledge is based on belief but don't have practical understanding.

• Tacit Knowledge: This knowledge is based on guesses , vision it is difficult to share as well as make some one understand.

• Explicit Knowledge : This Knowledge is based on  word and numbers.

There is also general and specific knowledge. General knowledge is in the brains of almost every one and it can be passed to anyone, where as specific knowledge is not possessed by everyone but by a limited number of individual.