Psy 360 Cognitive Research Paper
Cognitive Psychology
Angela M. Beal
PSY 360
10/20/2014
Professor Kasey Macnair
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology is the study of the mental processing, which can include thinking, problem solving, believing, speaking, decision-making, and learning. To summarize it is the study of the mind and how the mind functions in daily life and situations. In our daily life cognitive Psychology is always being used in order to stimulate some sort of action that is needed. There are many milestones that have been developed in relation to Cognitive Psychology.
One is Neuroscience, which examines the brain and how it interacts with the nervous system in determining behaviors. Behavioral Neuroscience began in the late 18th and 19th century …show more content…
Cognitive psychologist are unable to directly observer the behavior process of a human, therefore behavioral observations allow one to derive logical conclusions of their existence based on observable behaviors. “Behavioral observations enable different types of behavioral research methods to help and serve the needs of cognitive psychology in testing theories, which include descriptive, relational, and experimental research. Descriptive research is an individual’s description of behavior collected by naturalistic observation.” (Willingham …show more content…
Cognitive psychologists use this model as a base that can describe the mental process. This model compares human thinking to the basis of a computer and how it functions. The human mind is in close relation to that of a computer, it takes in information, stores, and organizes so that it can be retrieved later. An example can be that the eye will receive some sort of visual information and will code the information into electric neural activity which then is given back to the brain where it is stored and a code is placed on it. This form of information can be used by other parts of the brain that can relate to mental activities such as memory, perception and attention. The output might be something as reading a page that was printed out and able to understand as well as function on it. “In humans the sensory register, composed of sensory organs, such as the ears and eyes and the ears inputs information” (Kowalski & Westen, 2011). After that short-term memory stores information that can be retrieved at a later time as
Angela M. Beal
PSY 360
10/20/2014
Professor Kasey Macnair
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology is the study of the mental processing, which can include thinking, problem solving, believing, speaking, decision-making, and learning. To summarize it is the study of the mind and how the mind functions in daily life and situations. In our daily life cognitive Psychology is always being used in order to stimulate some sort of action that is needed. There are many milestones that have been developed in relation to Cognitive Psychology.
One is Neuroscience, which examines the brain and how it interacts with the nervous system in determining behaviors. Behavioral Neuroscience began in the late 18th and 19th century …show more content…
Cognitive psychologist are unable to directly observer the behavior process of a human, therefore behavioral observations allow one to derive logical conclusions of their existence based on observable behaviors. “Behavioral observations enable different types of behavioral research methods to help and serve the needs of cognitive psychology in testing theories, which include descriptive, relational, and experimental research. Descriptive research is an individual’s description of behavior collected by naturalistic observation.” (Willingham …show more content…
Cognitive psychologists use this model as a base that can describe the mental process. This model compares human thinking to the basis of a computer and how it functions. The human mind is in close relation to that of a computer, it takes in information, stores, and organizes so that it can be retrieved later. An example can be that the eye will receive some sort of visual information and will code the information into electric neural activity which then is given back to the brain where it is stored and a code is placed on it. This form of information can be used by other parts of the brain that can relate to mental activities such as memory, perception and attention. The output might be something as reading a page that was printed out and able to understand as well as function on it. “In humans the sensory register, composed of sensory organs, such as the ears and eyes and the ears inputs information” (Kowalski & Westen, 2011). After that short-term memory stores information that can be retrieved at a later time as