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Cognitive Psychology
Ultimately Cognitive psychology is the scientific investigation of human cognition, that is, all our mental abilities – perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, reasoning, and understanding. It is closely related to the highly interdisciplinary cognitive science and influenced by artificial intelligence, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, biology, physics, and neuroscience. Cognitive psychology studies how people acquire and apply knowledge or information.
- Author
- Mehgan Andrade and Neil Walker
- Publisher
- College of the Canyons
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 95 sections
- 01: History of Cognitive Psychology
- 1.01: Definition of Cognitive Psychology
- 1.02: Historical Roots- History of Cognition
- 1.03: Mnemonic Devices
- 1.04: Early Psychology - Structuralism and Functionalism
- 1.05: Contributions to Cognitive Psychology Birth
- 1.06: Gestalt Psychology
- 02: The Brain
- 2.01: The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
- 2.02: Lower-Level Structures of the Brain
- 2.03: Lobes - Cerebral Hemispheres and Lobes of the Brain
- 2.04: Limbic System and Other Brain Areas
- 2.05: Somatosensory and Motor Cortex
- 2.06: Hemispheres
- 2.07: Split-Brain Measures-severing the corpus callosum
- 2.08: Trauma
- 03: Methods of Research
- 3.01: A Model of Scientific Research in Psychology
- 04: Memory
- 4.01: Memory and the Brain
- 4.02: Memory Processes
- 4.03: Encoding
- 4.04: Storage
- 4.05: Retrieval
- 4.06: Modal Model of Memory
- 4.07: Ebbinghaus
- 4.08: William James- isolating Short-term and Long-term memory
- 4.09: Serial Position Curve
- 4.10: Recency Effects and Primary Effects
- 4.11: Short Term Memory
- 05: Working Memory
- 5.01: The difference between Working Memory and Short-Term Memory
- 5.02: Components-Central Executive Phonological Loop Visuospatial Sketchpad
- 5.03: Long Term Memory
- 5.04: Decay vs. Interference
- 5.05: Forgetting
- 5.06: Encoding Specificity Principle
- 5.07: Reconstruction of Memories
- 5.08: Autobiographical Memories
- 5.09: Amnesia
- 5.10: Eyewitness Memory
- 5.11: Attention Blindness
- 5.12: Weapon Focus
- 5.13: Cross Race effect
- 5.14: Source Monitoring
- 5.15: Memory Techniques
- 06: Problem Solving
- 6.01: Types of Problems
- 6.02: Problem Solving Strategies
- 6.03: Means Ends Analysis
- 6.04: Reasoning by Analogy
- 6.05: Transformation Problems
- 6.06: Incubation
- 6.07: Problem Solving Experts
- 6.08: Blocks to Problem Solving
- 07: Creativity
- 7.01: Creativity- What Is It
- 7.02: Insight
- 08: Reasoning
- 8.01: Formal Reasoning
- 8.02: Deductive Reasoning Inductive Reasoning
- 8.03: Propositional Reasoning
- 8.04: Venn Diagrams
- 8.05: Syllogisms
- 09: Decision Making
- 9.01: Representativeness
- 9.02: Availability
- 9.03: Anchoring
- 9.04: Framing
- 9.05: Sunk Cost Effect
- 9.06: Hindsight Bias
- 9.07: Illusory Correlations
- 9.08: Confirmation Bias
- 9.09: Belief Perseverance Bias
- 9.10: Overconfidence
- 10: Perception
- 10.01: Sensation vs. Perception
- 10.02: Classic View of Perception
- 10.03: Visual Illusions
- 10.04: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up (Conceptually-driven vs. Data-driven processing)
- 10.05: Multisensory Perception
- 10.06: Subliminal Perception
- 10.07: Synesthesia
- 10.08: McGurk Effect-Bimodal Speech Perception
- 11: Attention
- 11.01: What is Attention
- 11.02: History of Attention
- 11.03: Selective Attention and Models of Attention
- 11.04: Divided Attention
- 11.05: Subitizing
- 11.06: Auditory Attention
- 12: Classification and Categorization with Pattern Recognition
- 12.01: Approaches to Pattern Recognition
- 12.02: Face Recognition Systems
- 12.03: Concepts and Categories