Cesar Larios
PSY 360
December 1, 2014
Terry Blackmon
Cognitive Psychology Definition Paper
The human mind is full of complexity, with it we have the ability to breath, have a heartbeat, and also process what we see around us. Many experts in the field of psychology had tried to explain the full complexity of our brain’s actions and thoughts. According to Galotti (2014), cognitive psychology studies our thoughts such as what we perceive, attend, remember, think, categorize reason, decide, and so forth. Cognitive psychology opened the door to innovation it allowed psychologist room for expansion by giving them different ways to interpret psychology. With the desire for a change in traditional methods on how researchers studied the human mind, new developments in this study eventually lead to the growth of modern cognitive psychology. This paper will discuss the milestones that served as a foundation to modern cognitive psychology, and also the importance of behavioral observation in cognitive psychology.
The development of cognitive psychology occur as a result of many different achievements that paved the way for this new cognitive perspective. Many of the new ideas in cognitive psychology grew out of older ideas, in some cases, in direct opposition to older ideas (Willingham, 2007, p. 5). Behaviorism is one of the four milestones that had a great influenced in the development of cognitive psychology. The school of psychology that examines human behavior is behaviorism, this study measures the responses to stimuli it only basis of its theory without reference to conscious experience (Merriam Webster, 2012). Behaviorism lacked the study of to explain of how we learn and interpret language. It also was unable to show how our memory works and had a stronger focus on observing animals rather than humans.
The second milestone is refer to the abstract constructs to better understand this concept the analogy of computer
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