Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology, is a field of study pertaining to how people perceive, learn, remember and think; it is a scientific discipline that deals with an investigation of how the mind works, the various the processes involved , the social and cultural factors that influence these processes, and the various approaches used to study them (Sternberg, 2009). Cognitive psychology has evolved into a branch of psychology that explains how people first learns to speak,  make decisions or choices,  process what we observe around us how  those observations and experiences become part of our memory, and  use them to process new information.

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