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The Cognitive Revolution was a scientific movement that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, profoundly transforming the fields of psychology, education, and human sciences. This movement challenged behaviorism — which had dominated psychology until then — and focused on mental processes, such as memory, perception, language, and learning. One of the main figures in this revolution was psychologist Jerome Bruner, who had great influence in the 1960s. He argued that human understanding goes beyond observable behavior, and that it is essential to understand the internal processes that shape learning and cognition. Bruner's main contributions in this context: Active Learning: Bruner argued that learning is more effective when the student actively participates, discovering and constructing knowledge. Mental Representations: He identified three forms of knowledge representation: enactive (based on actions), iconic (based on images), and symbolic (based on language). Spiral Curriculum: He proposed a teaching model in which concepts are revisited periodically, at increasing levels of complexity. Culture and Education: Bruner highlighted that learning occurs in a cultural context, and meanings are constructed together.