Cognitive Psychology
Noam Chomsky
“Language”
Advent of computers (late 1950s) provided a new model for thinking about the mind (AI)
Interested in cognition: the mental processes involved in acquiring, processing, storing, and using information and investigates learning, attention, memory, perception, language development, and problem solving, etc.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Photograph of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner
Jerome Bruner
George Miller

Cognitive psychology is different from other psychological perspectives.  It adopts the scientific method and rejects introspection.  Unlike behavioral psychology, it posits the existence-of, and importance-of, internal mental states such as beliefs, desires, thoughts, and motivations
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Noam Chomsky
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Arranged by Gordon Vessels, Ed.D. 2004
John Anderson