Cognitive psychology first began between 1950 and 1970, and is known as the “Cognitive Revolution”. Psychologists strayed away from behavioral psychology and focused mainly on attention, memory, and decision making. Ulric Neisser first used the term “cognitive psychology”. He said that cognition is involved in almost everything that a person could possibly do in a daily life.
Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to make an understanding of …show more content…
Attention refers to when the cognitive process system gets overloaded and he brain has to determine which information it wants to keep to use later in the future. Judgment and decision is referred to a brain and how it makes decisions. Any type of human behavior requires judgment and then it requires a decision to be made from the judgment. Perception includes the 5 senses and processing of what we sense. What a person senses plays a part in what we already know. Problem solving is a way in which people achieve goals. People work hard to reach and accomplish goals in their