"Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning."
It examines mental processes such as perception, attention, memory, problem-solving, and language.
Attention: The ability to selectively focus on certain aspects of the environment while ignoring others.
Perception: The process by which sensory information is organized, interpreted and consciously experienced.
Memory: The ability to encode, store, and retrieve information over time.
Language: The system of communication using symbols and rules that are combined in meaningful ways according to principles of grammar.
Thinking and problem solving: The cognitive processes involved in formulating goals, evaluating information, and finding means to achieve them.
Emotion: The conscious experience of affective states, including feelings, moods, and emotions.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A disorder characterized by symptoms such as inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
Schizophrenia: A mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior, disordered thinking, and other symptoms.
Depression: A mood disorder characterized by a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest or pleasure.
Anxiety: A feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can vary from mild to severe.
"Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s..."
"...in a break from behaviourism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science."
"...researchers in linguistics and cybernetics, as well as applied psychology, used models of mental processing to explain human behavior."
"Work derived from cognitive psychology was integrated into other branches of psychology and various other modern disciplines like cognitive science, linguistics, and economics."
"The domain of cognitive psychology overlaps with that of cognitive science..."
"Cognitive science takes a more interdisciplinary approach and includes studies of non-human subjects and artificial intelligence."
"...attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning."
"...behaviourism...held...that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science."
"...to explain human behavior."
"Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s..."
"...other branches of psychology and various other modern disciplines like cognitive science, linguistics, and economics."
"...that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science."
"...researchers in linguistics and cybernetics, as well as applied psychology..."
"...attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning."
"...includes studies of non-human subjects and artificial intelligence."
"Cognitive psychology is the scientific study..."
"...unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science."
"...other branches of psychology and various other modern disciplines like cognitive science, linguistics, and economics."
"...studies of non-human subjects and artificial intelligence."