Logical - abstract thought as support to boost cognitive processes in education

Abstract

The current education must meet the demands of a new society, marked by excessive information from different sources especially the media, that is why it is necessary to develop students logical and abstract processes for the construction and reconstruction knowledge, so that achieve the necessary skills to perform properly in this competitive world; under that, this article has as main objective to provide a space for reflection on the relationship between cognitive processes
and logical and abstract thinking, and make awareness for people to develop perception, attention, memory, intelligence, thinking, language, you required the application of teaching strategies to develop these skills, so that education is considered in addition to play an important role in society should contribute to the development of intelligence through abstract logical thinking.
By writing, and as part of the analysis of this relationship begins contextualizing the problem, then several topics on the basis of considerations of contemporary authors regard the addresses: Thinking, classification, cognitive processes and cognitive theories. It is argued that these three areas of knowledge are relevant to an understanding of the relationship of abstract logical thought as support for enhancing cognitive processes.
The article also emphasizes that in these times teachers “stop teaching and let our students to work” implies a holistic development of cognitive processes through abstract logical thinking, starting work with students from the early years of schooling, in this perspective for the proposal should be applied activities and strategies according to the developmental age whose ultimate purpose is to get learners enhance their cognitive abilities as important at the present time.