Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes such as attention, memory, perception, problem solving, and thinking. Some of the main areas of focus include attention, memory, perception, language, and metacognition. Jean Piaget was an influential cognitive psychologist known for his stage theory of child cognitive development. The goal of cognitive psychologists is to understand the mental processes that underlie and affect human behavior.

1. Cognitive
Psychology

2. What is cognition?
Cognition is refers to thinking and memory
processes.

3. Cognitive Psychology
It is the study of mental processes such as
“attention, language use, memory, perception,
problem solving, creativity, and thinking.
(Wikipedia)

4. Jean Piaget- an influential leader of cognitive
psychology, studied intellectual development in
children and is most widely known for his stage
theory of cognitive development.

5. • Piaget’s theory of cognitive development-
it is a comprehensive theory about the
nature and development of human
intelligence.

6. The main focus of cognitive psychologists is on the
mental processes that affect behavior. Those
include, but are not limited to, the following:
o Attention
o Memory
o Perception
o Language
o Metacognition

7. Attention
It is a state of focused awareness on a subject of
the available perceptual information.
Exogenous control
Endogenous control

8. Memory
The power or process of reproducing or recalling
what has been learned and retained especially
through associative mechanisms. (Merriam
webster)
Short-term memory
Long-term memory

9. • Short-term memory- it is more clearly defined as
the ability to remember information in the face of
distraction.
• Long term memory
o Procedural memory- is a memory for the
performance of particular types of action. It is
often activated on a subconscious level, or at
most requires a minimal amount of conscious
effort.

10. • Semantic memory- is the encyclopedic
knowledge that a person possesses.
• Episodic memory- is the memory of
autobiographical events that can be explicitly
stated.

11. Perception
Perception involves both the physical senses
(sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch, and
proprioception) as well as the cognitive processes
involved in interpreting those senses. Essentially, it
is how people come to understand the world
around them through interpretation of stimuli.

12. Language
• The systems of words or signs that people use
to express thoughts and feeling to each other.

13. Metacognition
• It is the thoughts that a person has about their
own thoughts.

14. • Common phenomena related to metacognition
include:
o déjà vu- feeling of a repeated experience.
o Cryptomnesia- generating thought believing
it’s unique but it is actually a memory of a past
experience.
o False Fame Effect: non-famous names can be
made to be famous.

15. • Validity Effect: statements seem more valid upon
repeated exposure
• Imagination inflation: imagining an event that
didn't occur and having increased confidence
that it did occur.

16. Principles of Cognitive
Psychology
1. It accepts the use of the scientific method and
generally introspection as a valid method of
investigation.
2. It explicitly acknowledge the existence of
internal mental states (such as beliefs, desire,
and motivation).

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