cognitive psychology

noun

the branch of psychology studying the mental processes involved in perception, learning, memory, and reasoning.

noun

the psychological study of higher mental processes, including thinking and perception

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cognitive psychology¹

First recorded in 1945–50

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“To be effective at this work, you have to have a wide-ranging understanding of scientific evidence, everything from shaken baby syndrome to cognitive psychology to understanding how things go wrong with eyewitness identifications,” she said.

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When it comes to policy making, applications of social or cognitive psychology are now routinely labeled behavioral economics.

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The seminal paper on streakiness in sports is “The Hot Hand in Basketball”, a piece published in Cognitive Psychology in 1985.

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