Cognitive psychology

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In cognitive science, the branch called cognitive psychology deals with human mental processes involved in thinking, feeling and behaving. It includes a variety of thinking processes, among them: perception, attention, memory, knowledge acquisition, categorization, language, problem-solving, reasoning, and judgment.[1] Increasingly cognitive psychology is combined with neuroscience.[2]

References

  1. For example, see Ronald T. Kellogg (2011). “Defining cognitive psychology”, Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology, 2nd ed. Sage, p. 4. ISBN 1412977851. 
  2. John R. Anderson (2009). “The cognitive revolution: AI, information theory, and linguistics”, Cognitive Psychology and its Implications, 7th ed. Macmillan, p. 9. ISBN 1429219483.