Cognitive Psychology
Field studying mental processes — perception, attention, memory, language, and reasoning — as measurable operations.
Specifications & Metrics
- focus
- Internal mental processes: attention, memory, language, perception, and problem solving
- pioneer
- Ulric Neisser (Cognitive Psychology, 1967)
- method
- Reaction-time and accuracy experiments, memory paradigms, computational modeling
Core Principles & Analysis
- The cognitive revolution of the 1950s and 1960s moved the discipline beyond behaviorism's refusal to study mental states.
- Ulric Neisser's 1967 textbook Cognitive Psychology named and framed the field.
- Its information-processing framework fed directly into cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience.
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