Cognitive Psychology Journal

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...

RESEARCH METHODS IN COGNITIVE  PSYCHOLOGY This consists of the various research methods that we use in cognitive psychology. Every research has a goal and it is achieved through appropriate methodology. Let us see what are the goals of research. GOALS OF RESEARCH:- To better understand the specific methods used by cognitive psychologists, one must grasp the goals of research in cognitive psychology. Briefly, those goals include data gathering, data analysis, theory development, hypothesis formulation, hypothesis testing, and perhaps even application to settings outside the research environment. However, most cognitive psychologists want to understand more than cognition. They also seek to understand the  HOW  and the  WHY  of thinking. That is, researchers seek ways to explain cognition as well as describe it. To move beyond descriptions, cognitive psychologists must leap from what is observed directly to what can be inferred regarding obser...