Cognitive psychology

happens in the brain when it starts processing information or learning something new is quite astounding. The brain knows what steps it needs to take and it moves through them so quickly that it seems like second nature. When moving through these thoughts the individual does not have to think about each step and then move to the second step. According to Anderson (2015) this process is called cognition. By definition it is when a person processes the knowledge they have gained whether it is old or new. This is where the art of cognitive psychology is important because it looks and studies the types of functions in the brain. Because the brain is so complex and it is always processing different types of information and…

Cognitive Psychology is a branch of Psychology that is related to the scientific study of mental function and mind , including learning, perception, attention, reasoning, learning, language, decision making and conceptual development. The modern study of cognition is based on this premise that a brain can be also understood as any complex computer systam. Aaron Beck is generally regarded as the father of cognitive therapy. Beck has worked mainly with depression diagnoses. Cognitive Therapy has…

Love Drugs: A Cognitive Perspective In relationships, emotions take hold in almost every way, sometimes, we even lose sight of our brains in favor of our hearts. But what if we completely lost the ability to follow both our hearts and our brains? Recent science has debated on whether or not “love drugs,” drugs that can be used to keep people together or separate them, should be used in relationships. Some argue that these drugs could be used to keep families together or end abusive…

There are many research studies that have been conducted for examining the effect of Virtual Reality Environments. A number of them are also related to cognitive psychology. Some of the studies related to the analysis of the virtual reality effect on cognitive psychology are mentioned briefly. Sutherland I.E.in 1965, the very first idea of Virtual Reality was presented by Ivan Sutherland “make that (virtual) world in the window look real, sound real, feel real and respond realistically to the…

Cognitive psychology is the study of your brain and your mental process. One of the mental processes that are staged in cognitive psychology is your memory. The theoretical basis of my study was schema. Schema in psychology describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. Schema however is also part of the cognitive part of psychology. A Schema ‘theory’ basically states that everything you know is organized into units. Schema…

Psychology is the basic scientific study of the human mind and how it adapts and functions, especially those affecting behaviorism. The mental characteristics of an individual and or group and how they adapt, act and or function within society are what has also helped define psychology. Psychology has many different areas, such as life span development. Life span development, a study of the entire life span, is the primary focus of developmental psychology. It allows us to study the different…

I find the field of cognitive psychology very interesting. There are many areas in cognitive psychology that are not fully understood. Therefore, there are many areas within cognitive psychology that can be explored. Which makes experimenting in this area exciting. Learning about the different theories has altered how I think about events in everyday life. For instance, how emotions are created is something I have questioned. Learning the theories of emotion has given me a better…

Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology with mental processes such as perception, thinking, learning, and memory. The first recognition of the field of cognitive psychology was George Mandler, in 1964 upon creating a facility known as the Center for Human Information Processing (Kiderra, 2016). The “cognitive revolution” fifty years ago sparked new ideas about the way people thought about the mind. Without cognitive psychology, psychologists would still believe the brain was a random mass…

Cognitive psychology is a study of mental processes. This type of study is based on how people think, perceive, remember, and learn. The internal processes of cognitive psychology are attention, language, perception and memory. It also focuses on how people store and process information. Cognitive refers to knowing, which is how we understand and process the mind of a human being. Psychologists study the information that is in a person’s mind and calls that the stimuli. They study how the…

Behaviorist perspective Behavioral psychology which is also known as behaviorism is the theory of learning which is built on the idea that behaviors are conditioned responses. People learn from their environment. There are two main approaches to conditioned learning; classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning is based on natural reflexes and neutral stimuli. Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov is one of the most famous psychologists in behaviorism. Pavlov conditioned…