PS260 Chapter 1: Chapter 1.docx
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A brief history: introspection, behaviorism, cognitive revolution (1960 s) Research in cognitive psychology: an example: working memory. One way that we can define cognitive psychology is as the study of knowledge. Cognitive neuroscience is a way of modeling events in cognitive. She went to look for her mother. : need more than perception to understand this sentence, need memory, knowledge and problem solving, all cognitive skills We make inferences all the time, these are all cognition, that are based on previous experiences. Example: speech the mechanisms in your brain make it possible for one to unstand a phrase in which something is changed: r3s3arch. Cognitive psychology affects most psychological research: there is usually a cognitive component you need to consider for example. So while cognitive psychology may seem very removed from other areas (such as social or clinical psychology) it is actually inherent to both. For this reason cognitive issues were once referred to as basic processes by researchers.
