Cognitivism focuses on how thinking and memory can be studied as behaviors. Key points are that learning involves actively filtering, selecting, organizing, and integrating new information based on prior knowledge. For teachers, this means using visual aids and managing the limited capacity of the auditory and visual channels when presenting media. Students learn as an active process, interacting based on how the teacher stimulates them, by organizing information as it enters their mind and leading to outcomes, similar to how a computer processes data. The theory was helpful for the author as a kinesthetic learner who benefits from visual examples over notes.