Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of the mind as an information processor. Cognitive psychologists try to build up cognitive models of the information processing that goes on inside people's minds, including perception, attention, language, memory, thinking, and consciousness. read more
Cognitive Psychology is often dated to the late 1950s or early 1960s with a "cognitive revolution", but the truth is, is that cognitive ideas had been present for a while. Let me illustrate a brief history of experimental psychology beginning with John Watson's Behaviorism: 1879 - Wilhelm Wundt starts the first known experimental psychology lab. read more
Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking". read more