There are many types of psychology in the world. Some are used for studying behavior, being educational or counseling someone. People wonder how do we gather information, how we see the world from different perspectives or some insight on how our brain works. Thankfully, there is an area of study that focuses on this direct topic and it is called cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology is the study of the mind. Its main focuses are the mind as a pathway to process information also including things such as perception, attention, language, and memory. The way these psychologists learn new information is through a scientific approach to discover the processes. However, everything we do or decide can be traced down to simple things we …show more content…
It helps us discover things such as language, learning, memory, and speech. Things happen because of how people receive and interpret different information. Knowing these things could help people suggest positive changes in behavior. Also, when people understand how they think, they can analyze thoughts before making decisions. Teachers can use these studies on a class to see which way the class can most efficiently learn. Each group of students may be more visual learners, auditory learners, or kinetic learners (Hosking). Another strategy is how people react to commercials some people like more comedic and laid-back commercials and some just like it when the words “sale” flash on their screens. Things we see daily such as billboards and magazines also have a way of influencing your mind to see what you like. We don’t realize it, but if we paid attention to the things we think of we would start to understand some of the ways our minds react to …show more content…
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It seems as new minds enter the field so does new ways of thinking, as with anything the science evolves depending on the perspective of the person who views it. Similar to the main character in “The Noticer”. The main character helps people by expanding their perspective. Cognitive psychology is similar in the way it studies the various intricacies of a person’s behaviors and way of thinking. Cognitive psychology is relative because when one considers a person’s perception it usually has a basis in a person’s experience. In other words perception is a series of layers and cognitive psychology has a basis in the various layers of processing information that one acquires and stores.
Cognitive psychology is the study of the brains internal processes that guide behaviour; to study cognition, psychologists examine case studies of patients with damaged brains that can infer areas, and functions involved in particular processes. Patient studies have provided insights into the processes that take place within our minds, and have enabled psychologists to create models, which can be tested and fractionated. Cognitive neuropsychology has developed from cognitive psychology to become a discipline in its own right; it investigates the function and structures of the brain involved in cognitive processes and should not be confused with cognitive neuroscience, which is primarily concerned with neural structures and their functions.
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Several acheivements occurred in the development of cognitive psychology. The study of neuroscience brings us to what we know about cognition today. Cognitive psychology came from the criticisms and flaws of behaviorism. The focus of behaviorism is on observable behaviors, although cognitive psychology became a means to studying mental processes. Cognitive psychology can answer the questions behaviorism could not provide. Behavioral observations are key factors in cognitive psychology, and help with interpreting mental processes and behaviors. Through studying mental processes cognitive psychologists’ expanded psychology through and beyond observations. Behavioral observations helps researchers test cognitive theories. Behaviorists study observable behavior and cognitive psychologists study the mental processes. When studying these processes, researchers attempt to explain how unobservable processes interact with the observable behaviors and helping cognitive psychologists test their theories in
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According to numerous references in the field of Psychology, a cognitive psychologist is an individual that studies topics such as thinking, problem-solving, learning, attention, memory, forgetting, and language acquisition, among several others. Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies mental processes, and its core focus is on how people acquire, process, and store information. While great research has been done within the field of psychology, there are individuals such as B.F. Skinner who criticize its strides, purposes, and research methods.
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Whilst evaluating the cognitive approach to psychology there are many strengths such as that the cognitive approach takes an understanding of the influence from mental processes on one’s behaviour, focusing on an individual’s thinking patterns and their perception. This approach also relates to many known functions and operations that the human body performs such as memory and problem solving.
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Cognitive Psychology is focused on learning based on how people perceive, remember, think, speak and problem-solve. The cognitive perspective differs in...
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