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.
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
Arranged by Gordon Vessels, Ed.D. 2004