Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology centered on the information processing viewpoint that is formed with the rise of computers and the emergence of information theory. It is also known as an information processing psychology. Cognitive psychology follows the tradition of rationalism, focusing on analyzing the primate with rational analysis and reasoning, especially the human psychological processes and laws. It is devoted to analyzing and simulating the operation process and law of the psychological “black box” through observable external indicators. Cognitive psychology analogizes the internal psychological process of human beings to the logical operation process of computers. It considers the process from stimulus input to response output as the information processing process in which the computer encodes, processes, stores, and extracts external information.
The birth of cognitive psychology is generally considered to be marked by the publication of American psychologist...
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Wangbing, S. (2024). Cognitive Psychology. In: The ECPH Encyclopedia of Psychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6000-2_720-1
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