Cognitive Development in Film and Television

Cognitive Development in Film and Television
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Cognitive Development in Film and Television
In most interactions and experiences, cognitive development and cognition is ever growing. Our involvement in, not only our cognitive development, but also that of others, is often taken for granted. The film Trolls demonstrates the concept of collaboration in cognitive development and employs perception as well as thinking, reasoning and decision making in its entirety.
The film Trolls at first glance looks like a childish film with all the pomp, color and sing-song nature in it. However, after watching the entire film, one meets a far more constructive and enchanting message that resonates with meta-cognition and perception in cognitive development. The film is basically about two trolls, as the characters are depicted, who are in a quest to save their village from creatures that eat trolls to be happy. The trolls are naturally happy and colorful creatures (Bergens) but one of them portrays completely opposite traits. Despite, the difference from the rest of the troll population, they successfully manage to save the troll village. The different troll even changes to the best and becomes less grumpy and more of an average troll (Mike, 2016). In the film, the contribution of peer-collaboration in cognitive development in and around ourselves is clearly observed as well as the interactions of perception and the meta-cognition themes.
Our inability to perfectly look back on our memories and their contribution to our cognitive development necessitates the importance of themes that contribute to healthy brain cognition. Thinking, reasoning, and decision making are in cohesion with the framework around which the film is made. These aspects form the essentials of any cognition process in human being. The film intentionally and implicitly implies this theme through Branch, one of the lead characters in the film, who shows the contribution of these aspects in his development indifferent situations. In the beginning of the movie, Branch is the indifferent troll who is always sad, gloomy and the dullest in his imaging. Initially, decisions made by Branch are a result of his thinking and reasoning after losing his grandmother who had been taken in front of him while saving his life. Branch's dullness was as a result of constant self-blame that he even swore off joy and happiness that was the core value of the troll community. However, through an interactive experience with Poppy, the princess troll, he is able to conform to a different thought, reason and decision making process that changes him completely.             Branch as a character implicitly implies the theme of thinking, reasoning and decision making in the cognitive development of an individual. In...