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cognitive psychology
noun
- the branch of psychology studying the mental processes involved in perception, learning, memory, and reasoning.
cognitive psychology
noun
- the psychological study of higher mental processes, including thinking and perception
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cognitive psychology1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
“To be effective at this work, you have to have a wide-ranging understanding of scientific evidence, everything from shaken baby syndrome to cognitive psychology to understanding how things go wrong with eyewitness identifications,” she said.
From Washington Post
When it comes to policy making, applications of social or cognitive psychology are now routinely labeled behavioral economics.
From The Daily Beast
The seminal paper on streakiness in sports is “The Hot Hand in Basketball”, a piece published in Cognitive Psychology in 1985.
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