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Cognitive psychology is the experimental study of mental processes — perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning, decision-making — treated as steps in an information-handling system that can be measured in milliseconds and modelled in flowcharts. Key sections include: Cognitive Psychology.; A first word The mind, examined in detail.; Chapter I What cognitive psychology is.; Chapter II What it broke from.; Chapter III Miller & the magical seven.; Chapter IV Neisser names the field.; Chapter V How attention works.; Chapter VI Working memory.; Chapter VII Long-term memory.; Chapter VIII The shape of forgetting..