What role does cognitive psychology play in our modern understanding of cognition? Cognitive psychology plays a big part in our modern understanding of cognition. By trying to understand language, memory, attention, reasoning, perception, and decision making we narrowed down the mind trying to understand it in its whole while spreading this knowledge. Having basic understanding of attention, reasoning, and decision making in cognitive psychology may have helped people who have learning disabilities which is important. People who have learning disabilities can get the help …show more content…
When setting a plan to reach our goals our emotions play a big factor. Our emotions sway us one way or the other when we have something which we want to do. For example if you 're choosing what to do for a career, how do it, and if college is the best way to get there. To do that you need to be able to make decisions which cognitive psychology tries to grasp why. Emotions are the why because if not for them we wouldn’t know why we did something a certain way or how you feel about doing it that