cognitive psychology

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noun

the branch of psychology studying the mental processes involved in perception, learning, memory, and reasoning.

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Origin of cognitive psychology

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby cognitive psychology

cognitive development, cognitive dissonance, cognitive ethology, cognitive impairment, cognitive map, cognitive psychology, cognitive radio, cognitive science, cognitive therapy, cognitivism, cognizable

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How to use cognitive psychology in a sentence

“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.
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“The psychology of BDSM is lacking in other formal training regiments and interactions,” added Stella.
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A big part of the reason is a simple psychological phenomenon called cognitive dissonance.
Why Didn’t Camille Dump Bill Cosby?|Amanda Marcotte|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ambassador Shirley Temple Black attributed this to the “deeply risk-averse psychology of the Czech people.”
How Havel Inspired the Velvet Revolution|Michael Zantovsky|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It combines pickup techniques supposedly inspired by evolutionary psychology with self-help pseudoscience.
The Secret World of Pickup Artist Julien Blanc|Brandy Zadrozny|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Laskey, who earned a degree in psychology, enjoys painting and poetry.
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This is the only book that I know which goes deeply into the corrupting, demoralizing psychology of prison life.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
But a man cannot afford to ponder such problems in feminine psychology too closely if he has anything else to do!
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
The social regulations from the viewpoint of individual psychology.
Taboo and Genetics|Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
His son, Steven James Bartlett, has published fifteen books and many papers in philosophy and psychology.
The Haciendas of Mexico|Paul Alexander Bartlett
His psychology is that of the crass materialist—always a rather funny article.
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British Dictionary definitions for cognitive psychology

cognitive psychology

noun

the psychological study of higher mental processes, including thinking and perception

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