Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive psychology began around 19th century. Different approaches have been used to trace the roots of psychology. It is also known that cognitive psychology was out numbered by behaviorism but later revived, bringing into being cognitive revolution. The paper discusses cognitive revolution in the history of cognitive psychology as the most influential part in the practice of modern psychology.

Introduction

A scientific branch of psychology that is concerned with the study of cognition is referred to as cognitive psychology. Cognition has aspects involved in mental processes that include perception, attention, memory, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making. Perception is associated with recognizing, attention with focusing, memory as the aspect of remembering, while reasoning and decision making is associated with resolving and deciding which course to take. Research shows that cognitive psychology began when mind researches were first done. With the rise of behaviorism approach, the study of mind got discouraged and cognitive psychology faded. Later, cognitive psychology was established as a major psychology area resulting to cognitive revolution. This brought about rebirth of science of mind. This has developed to modern approaches used in the study of mind.

According to Goldstein (2007), the research of cognitive psychology began in 19th century long before the psychology field with Franciscus Donders being its pioneer. Decline of behaviorism initiated cognitive revolution. Behaviorism brought the idea that, by studying the stimulus-response relationships, behavior can be understood. At around 1950s, several events occurred resulting to cognitive revolution. Cognitive revolution can be defined as a shift fo...

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...h these specifications, it is therefore, good to engage in the practice of developing cognitive models that would support the required skills. Behavioral concept, on the other hand, should not be nullified for it is still used by psychologists in their analysis of mind.

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Benjamin, T.L., (2007). A Brief History of Modern Psychology. Wiley-Blackwell

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