Cognitive psychology

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In cognitive science, the branch called cognitive psychology deals with human mental processes involved in thinking, feeling and behaving. It includes a variety of thinking processes, among them: perception, attention, memory, knowledge acquisition, categorization, language, problem-solving, reasoning, and judgement.[1] Increasingly cognitive psychology is combined with neuroscience.[2]

References

  1. For example, see Ronald T. Kellogg (209). “The cognitive revolution: AI, information theory, and linguistics”, Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology, 7th ed. Macmillan, p. 9. ISBN 1429219483. 
  2. John R. Anderson (2011). “Defining cognitive psychology”, Cognitive Psychology and its Implications, 2nd ed. Sage, p. 4. ISBN 1412977851.