Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes. It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems.[1]

Cognitive psychology is radically different from previous psychological approaches in two key ways.

* It accepts the use of the scientific method, and generally rejects introspection[2] as a valid method of investigation, unlike symbol-driven approaches such as Freudian psychology.[neutrality is disputed]
* It explicitly acknowledges the existence of internal mental states (such as belief, desire and motivation). In its early years, critics held that the empiricism of cognitive psychology combined with its acceptance of internal mental states was contradictory. However, the sibling field of cognitive neuroscience has provided evidence[citation needed] of physiological brain states which directly correlate with mental states. In that sense, cognitive neuroscience has vindicated the central assumption of cognitive psychology.

The school of thought arising from this approach is known as cognitivism.

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