# Cognitive Psychology

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Category: Psychology
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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:04.048Z
Tags: psychology, cognitive

## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

1. Cognitive Psychology.
2. A first word The mind, examined in detail.
3. Chapter I What cognitive psychology is.
4. Chapter II What it broke from.
5. Chapter III Miller & the magical seven.
6. Chapter IV Neisser names the field.
7. Chapter V How attention works.
8. Chapter VI Working memory.
9. Chapter VII Long-term memory.
10. Chapter VIII The shape of forgetting.
11. Chapter IX Memory as reconstruction.
12. Chapter X Loftus and the false memory.
13. Chapter XI The seven sins of memory.
14. Chapter XII Bottom-up and top-down.
15. Chapter XIII The language faculty.
16. Chapter XIV How people reason.
17. Chapter XV Heuristics and biases.
18. Chapter XVI Thinking, fast and slow.
19. Chapter XVII Decisions under constraint.
20. Chapter XVIII Insight and search.
21. Chapter XIX Imagery in the mind.
22. Chapter XX Concepts and categories.
23. Chapter XXI Cognition meets the brain.
24. Chapter XXII Priming and what it survived.
25. Chapter XXIII The crisis and the response.
26. Chapter XXIV Findings that left the lab.
27. Chapter XXV What we still do not know.
28. Chapter XXVI Books and landmark papers.
29. Chapter XXVII Watch and read.
30. Colophon

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