{"id":7533,"date":"2019-05-22T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cognitive_psychology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:54","slug":"cognitive_psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cognitive_psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The branch of psychology that studies the processes and mechanisms underlying all forms of cognition, mainly by experimental methods. &nbsp;To begin with, it was based on testing information-processing models of cognitive functioning, but in recent years these models have been challenged by dynamical systems approaches and the theory of embodiment. &nbsp;The term appeared for the first time in <a href=\"http:\/\/hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/12\/remembering-ulric-neisser\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/12\/remembering-ulric-neisser\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ulric Neisser<\/a>&#8216;s book <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Cognitive psychology<\/span> (1968), but its birth was probably witnessed at the Hixon symposium (1948) and facilitated by the theorising of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Donald_Broadbent\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Donald_Broadbent&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Broadbent<\/a>&nbsp;(1926-1993) in his book <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Perception and communication<\/span> (1958), as well as by <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Plans and the structure of behaviour<\/span> (1960) written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/george-a-miller\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/george-a-miller&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George A. Millar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/education.nationaljournal.com\/contributors\/eugene-galanter.php\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/education.nationaljournal.com\/contributors\/eugene-galanter.php&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eugene Galanter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfn.org\/skins\/main\/pdf\/history_of_neuroscience\/hon_vol_2\/c11.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.sfn.org\/skins\/main\/pdf\/history_of_neuroscience\/hon_vol_2\/c11.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karl A. Pribram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cognition\">Cognition<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_immaturity_hypothesis\">Cognitive immaturity hypothesis<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_neuroscience\">Cognitive neuroscience<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_science\">Cognitive science<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamical_systems_approaches\">Dynamical systems approaches<\/a>, <a href=\"embodiment\">Embodiment<\/a>, <a href=\"hixon_symposium\">Hixon symposium<\/a>, <a href=\"information\">Information<\/a>, <a href=\"information-processing_theories\">Information-processing theories<\/a>, <a href=\"mechanism\">Mechanism<\/a>, <a href=\"neuropsychology\">Neuropsychology<\/a>, <a href=\"neuroscience\">Neuroscience<\/a>, <a href=\"psychology\">Psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"two_visual_systems_hypothesis\">Two visual systems hypothesis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The branch of psychology that studies the processes and mechanisms underlying all forms of cognition, mainly by experimental methods. &nbsp;To begin with, it was based on testing information-processing models of cognitive functioning, but in recent years these models have been challenged by dynamical systems approaches and the theory of embodiment. &nbsp;The term appeared for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cognitive_psychology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cognitive psychology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}