Draft:Outline of cognitive psychology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cognitive psychology:

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science. This break came as researchers in linguistics and cybernetics, as well as applied psychology, used models of mental processing to explain human behavior. Work derived from cognitive psychology was integrated into other branches of psychology and various other modern disciplines like cognitive science, linguistics, and economics. The domain of cognitive psychology overlaps with that of cognitive science, which takes a more interdisciplinary approach and includes studies of non-human subjects and artificial intelligence.

Branches of cognitive psychology

Major research areas

• Categorization
  • Induction and acquisition
  • Judgement and classification
  • Representation and structure
  • Similarity
• Knowledge representation
  • Dual-coding theories
  • Media psychology
  • Mental imagery
  • Numerical cognition
  • Propositional encoding
• Language
  • Language acquisition
  • Language processing
  • • Linguistics
    • Grammar
  • • Phonetics
    • Phonology
• Memory
  • Aging and memory
  • Autobiographical memory
  • Childhood memory
  • Constructive memory
  • Emotion and memory
  • Episodic memory
  • Eyewitness memory
  • False memories
  • Flashbulb memory
  • List of memory biases
  • Long-term memory
  • Semantic memory
  • Short-term memory
  • Source-monitoring error
  • Spaced repetition
  • Working memory
• Perception
  • Attention
  • Object recognition
  • Pattern recognition
  • Perception
    • Form perception
  • Psychophysics
  • Time sensation
• Thinking
  • Choice (Glasser's theory)
  • Concept formation
  • Decision making
  • Logic
  • Psychology of reasoning
  • Problem solving

History of cognitive psychology

• History of cognitive psychology

Persons influential in cognitive psychology

• List of cognitive scientists