THE ROLE OF COGNITIVE ACTIVITY IN TEACHING BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES TO STUDENTS

Abstract

Cognitive interest, defined as a person’s selective orientation to the field of knowledge and the process of acquiring knowledge, plays an important role in improving the quality of knowledge acquisition, the formation of skills and abilities, since the educational process is attractive to students due to the presence of interest, encourages them not to memorize, but to acquire new knowledge in the process of creative research activities.