COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY:-
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY:- “Mind and world … have evolved together, and in consequence are something of a mutual fit”. – William James INTRODUCTION:- Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes such as perceiving, remembering, and reasoning. Why do psychologists study mental processes? Since the beginning of recorded history, people have expressed curiosity about the operation of the mind, largely because they believed that behaviour is the result of mental processes. For example, how are we to understand the very behaviour in which you are engaged at this moment, reading this course book? At one level, we are interested in explaining your ability to comprehend what you are reading, and in so doing, we are likely to appeal to processes of perception of words and computation of meaning. At another level, we might explain your motivation