cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, memory, decision-making, intelligence and thinking. Perception is concerned with the way we acquire knowledge. Attention is concerned with the acquisition and Memory is concerned with organizing and recalling knowledge that further helps us in learning, speaking and interaction, and the important aspect is as how we use the knowledge.

Assumptions of Cognitive Psychology:

Cognitive Psychology is closely related to the highly interdisciplinary cognitive science and influenced by artificial intelligence, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, biology, physics, and neuroscience. According to cognitive psychologists, behaviour results from information processing in the mind. They use a computer metaphor for the mind while making comparisons between mind and computer “Like a computer, the brain takes in information, manipulates it, and then produces responses”. Computer and mind have a few components in common: input, processing, output, memory stores and limited capacity for the amount of information that can be processed at one time. In this way, internal mental processes are studied with the help of information processing model i.e.:

Cognitive science focuses on how people structure their experience and make sense of them and how they relate their current experiences with the past ones that have been stored in their memory. Meanwhile, a person fits new information in an organized network of already accumulated knowledge known as schema. A person’s behavior is governed by the stimuli present in the environment, how one perceives and interprets the information according to the sc...

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...lligence analysis, computer-human interaction, human performance testing, linguistic analysis and speech synthesis.

With less technical training, cognitive psychologists can work as a technical writer, consultant and marketing representative. Also, Cognitive psychologists work in schools and universities, research facilities, prisons, treatment or rehabilitation centers, government agencies, hospitals or in a private practice setting.

Research is important and crucial in the field of cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychologist can participate in research projects and international conferences held in foreign countries to gain more knowledge about cognitive science.

A cognitive psychologist can work in areas of social psychology, anthropology, developmental psychology, personality psychology, neuropsychology, computer science, humanities and arts and philosophy.