COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

Introduction

Cognitive Psychology is a new scientific paradigm in place of behaviorism. Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the way humans have to learn, think and make decisions, to understand the world around us and act accordingly. Cognitive psychology it is in the observation of behavior that we must find the key. In other words, cognitive psychologists suggest from the visible to, better understand what is not. Cognitive psychology, contrary to popular belief did not originate in the sixties, but much earlier as a discipline of experimental psychology and evolutionary psychology (Klahr & Wallace, 1978). Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with the processes through which the individual obtains knowledge of the world and takes awareness of their surroundings, and their results. The origin of cognitive psychology closely linked to the history of psychology in general. Modern cognitive psychology been formed under the influence of related disciplines such as management of information, the intelligence artificial and science of language.

Key Milestones in the Development of Cognitive Psychology

The Crumbling of Behaviorism

The fall of behaviorism came about for numerous reasons, especially in the several problems been implicated in the fall of behaviorism, especially in the case of understanding and comprehending memory and language. The observations conducted by behaviorists mostly conducted on animals, despite being enriched by the exclusively designed scientific methods; these methods were criticized by many people for being the unexplainable as animals do not possibly explain human language and other abilities. Animals cannot present Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, or Wundt and James' introspection (Halford & Wilson, 1998); their internal behavior cannot provide the explanation for human mental process and their inherent drives. In the end, psychology was forced to adapt all features of the human psyche, which definitely incorporated that which emerged inside ...