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CONCLUSION
All in all, in English teaching, cognitive psychology theory plays an important role in guiding the English teaching, so English teacher should realize the importance of cognitive psychology in the teaching process so as to give full play to students’ learning ability more effectively and scientifically and make students get good teaching results more easily. Cognitive theory is learning theory of psychology that attempts to explain human behavior by understanding the thought process. It is emphasized in the conscious thought. The theory was born in the 1950s. There are four factors influenced the development of it. They are experimental psychology, the shift from behaviorism to cognition, language acquisition and computer artificial intelligence. In this case, cognitivism is divided into three important cognitive theories emphasize their conscious thoughts. They are Piaget’s cognitive development theory, Vygotsky’s socio cultural cognitive theory, and the information processing approach. All of the types of cognitive theory stress on the important of process
that is happening inside the human’s mind. The application of cognitive theory can be applied through problem based learning, discovery learning, cognitive strategies, and project based learning. Overall the goal of its application is to create the students to be active in teaching learning process.


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