Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology investigates mental processes involved in acquisition, storage,
manipulation, and transformation of information received from the environment
along with its use and communication. The major cognitive processes are attention,
perception, memory, reasoning, problem solving, decision-making and language. You
will be studying these topics later in this textbook. In order to study these cognitive
processes, psychologists conduct experiments in laboratory settings. Some of them also follow an ecological approach, i.e. an approach which focuses on the environmental factors, to study cognitive processes in a natural setting.

Cognitive psychologists often collaborate with neuroscientists and computer scientists.