Draft:Outline of cognitive psychology
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cognitive psychology:
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science. This break came as 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.
Branches of cognitive psychology
Major research areas
- Categorization
- Induction and acquisition
- Judgement and classification
- Representation and structure
- Similarity
- Knowledge representation
- Language
- Memory
- Perception
- Thinking