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cognitive psychology

cognitive psychology

1 4.4
Study of how people think, remember, and solve problems
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑɡnɪtɪv saɪˈkɑlədʒi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : psicología cognitiva
  • The study of cognitive psychology helps us understand how memory and perception work.
  • cognitive psychology research
  • field of cognitive psychology
  • cognitive psychology theory

All three domains connect to social psychology and cognitive psychology in clear ways.

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Examples

  • Along these same lines, substantial research developments from the cognitive psychology domain were influencing instructional delivery.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Theory of mind, a concept from cognitive psychology, refers to the capacity to understand how other individuals think.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Here, one needs to look to cognitive psychology for suggestions.

    Academic text (2004)
  • I was studying cognitive psychology, cognitive science in particular.

  • Metacognition is a concept derived from the field of cognitive psychology.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Jessica Love is a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive psychology at Ohio State University.

    Academic text (2010)
  • With the focus of educators shifting toward cognitive psychology, computer-based instruction changed, too.

    Academic text (2015)
  • At the moment, the most important mainstream approaches in psychology are behaviorism, cognitive psychology, and psychoanalysis.

    Academic text (1992)
  • We discuss potential learning and memory effects from cognitive psychology that may explain the observed superiority of IR over other flashcard techniques.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Meanwhile, new perspectives were emerging from the field of cognitive psychology, broadening the ways in which educators in general conceptualized music.

    Academic text (2002)

How Biological

neuropsychology
  • Specialized
2 7.5
cognitive neuroscience
  • Specialized
1 5.7
cognitive psychology
  • Specialized
1 4.4
behavioralism
  • Specialized
8.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

cognitive + psychology

The meaning 'a branch of psychology that studies mental processes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cognitive' (relating to mental processes) with 'psychology' (the study of mind/behavior). This is a regular noun–noun compound following standard compositional rules that are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Cognitive psychology comes from the words cognitive, which is about thinking, and psychology, which means the study of the mind. Imagine someone watching the steps inside a mind to see how people 'think', 'remember' and 'solve problems', and that's why cognitive psychology means the study of those mental activities.