Cognitive Psychology



Cognitive Psychology

Introduction

Cognitive psychology studies the internal mental processes and is a sub branch of psychology. These processes relate with attention, visual perception, memory, speech comprehension, reading and written word recognition, reasoning, and problem-solving. Many people are mistaken that psychology is only limited for the usage of psychology students, psychotherapists and academicians. This could not be farther from truth in that psychology is not only a theoretical subject but is highly applicable too (Kim & Cranor, 2009).

Discussion

Cognitive psychology, contrary to popular belief did not originate in the sixties, but much earlier as a discipline of experimental psychology and evolutionary psychology. ...