Question

1. a) What is cognitive psychology, and how does it relate to the larger field of cognitive science?

b) What were the historical core events that resulted in the birth and rise of cognitive psychology?

c) What are the basic assumptions of the information-processing approach?

d) What is chunking, and why is it so important? How does it relate to other cognitive processes, such as attention, perception, and decision-making?

e) To which extent can memory be compared to a recording camera? Are memories that reliable?

Please answer each of the part of above question and quality matters a lot. Please write professionally and don't plagiarise from anywhere. Please write the answer to the point and on your own only.

Answer 1

a) What is cognitive psychology, and how does it relate to the larger field of cognitive science?

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology which scientifically studies mental processes.

It is related to larger field of cognitive science in the sense that it deals with aspects of cognitive science such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking.

b) What were the historical core events that resulted in the birth and rise of cognitive psychology?

Historically, cognitive psychology originated with the application of cognitive approaches to psychological problems at the end of the 1800s and early 1900s in the works of Wundt, Cattell, and William James.

Lack of understanding of the internal mental processes led to no distinction between memory and performance and failed to account for complex learning. This core issue led to rise of Cognitive Psychology in the mid-1950s. At that time researchers in several fields began to develop theories of mind based on complex representations and computational procedures

c) What are the basic assumptions of the information-processing approach?

Basic assumptions are following:

(1) information made available by the environment is processed by a series of processing systems (e.g. attention, perception, short-term memory);

(2) these processing systems transform or alter the information in systematic ways;

(3) the aim of research is to specify the processes and structures that underlie cognitive performance;

(4) information processing in humans resembles that in computers.