A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology: From Classical Thought to Modern Empiricism

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What is Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology examines the following aspects of the human experience: Perception, Attention, Learning, Memory Concept Formation, Reasoning, Judgment and Decision-Making, Problem Solving, and Language Processing (Lu & Dosher, 2007). Each one is an integral individual component of consciousness as a whole.

Philosophical Roots

Aristotle and Plato were the first Western philosophers to consider how humans intake, process, and act on information. Many ancient philosophers like Aristotle used logic and rhetoric to argue about how the mind works.

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