Concept
Cognitive psychology
Overview
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science. This break came as researchers in linguistics, cybernetics, and applied psychology used models of mental processing to explain human behavior. Work derived from cognitive psychology was integrated into other branches of psychology and into various other modern disciplines, such as cognitive science, linguistics, and economics.
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Meanwhile, with respect to these conceptions, as with respect to all our cognition, we certainly may discover in experience, if not the principle of their possibility, yet the occasioning causes of their production. It will be found that the impressions of sense give the first occasion for bringing into action the whole faculty of cognition, and for the production of experience, which contains two very dissimilar…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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The cognitive powers, which are involved by this representation, are here in free play, because no definite concept limits them to a particular[19] rule of cognition. Hence, the state of mind in this representation must be a feeling of the free play of the representative powers in a given representation with reference to a cognition in general.
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
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To prevent this, the mind makes the particular ideas received from particular objects to become general; which is done by considering them as they are in the mind such appearances,—separate from all other existences, and the circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called ABSTRACTION, whereby ideas taken from particular beings become general representatives of all of…
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
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Philosophers who discussed Cognitive psychology
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Eleanor Rosch
- Cognition
- Artificial intelligence
- George Berkeley
- Herbert A. Simon
- Creativity
- Immanuel Kant
- Metacognition
- John Locke
- Mood (psychology)
- Language
- Mind–body dualism
- Language acquisition
- Cybernetics
- Visual perception
- Proprioception
- Noam Chomsky
- Cognitive revolution
- Linguistics
- Plato
- Phoneme
- Classification
- Phonology
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Behaviorism.