What is cognitive psychology?

Cognitive psychology is a psychological trend of thought and research direction that rose in the west in the mid-1950s.

In a broad sense, it refers to the study of human advanced psychological processes, mainly cognitive processes, such as attention, perception, representation, memory, creativity, problem solving, speech and thinking.

Narrow sense is equivalent to contemporary information processing psychology. That is to study the cognitive process from the perspective of information processing.

Extended data

Cognitive psychology is one of the latest branches of psychology, which developed from 1950 to 1960 and became the main school of western psychology in 1970s.

1956 is considered to be an important year in the history of cognitive psychology. Several psychological studies this year all reflect the psychological viewpoint of information processing. Such as Chomsky's language theory, newell and herbert alexander simon's "universal problem solver" model.

"Cognitive Psychology" first appeared in the publication in ulrich neisser's new book 1967. The book Perception and Communication published by Donald broadbent in 1958 laid an important foundation for the orientation of cognitive psychology. Since then, the focus of cognitive psychology has turned to Donald broadbent's cognitive information processing model-a thinking and reasoning model with psychological processing.

Therefore, thinking and reasoning work in the human brain, just as computer software works in a computer. Cognitive psychology theory often talks about the concepts of input, representation, calculation or processing, output and so on.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cognitive Psychology (a research direction of psychology)