Outline of cognitive psychology

The term cognitive tends to have specific implications - see cognitive, cognition and cognitivism).

Main areas of cognitive psychology

 * Attention
 * Comprehension
 * Decision making
 * Judgement
 * Memory
 * Learning
 * Perception
 * Reasoning
 * Problem solving

Cognitive processes
So cognitive processes are those involved in cognition, the acquisition, processing and use of knowledge and information.

Further processes include:
 * Accommodation
 * Assimilation
 * Associative processes
 * Chunking
 * Classification
 * Cognitive bias
 * Cognitive appraisal
 * Cognitive discrimination
 * Cognitive dissonance
 * Cognitive generalization
 * Cognitive mediation
 * Cognitive style
 * Comprehension
 * Concentration
 * Concept formation
 * Conceptual blending
 * Creativity
 * Day dreaming
 * Decision making
 * Defence mechanisms
 * Fantasy
 * Ideation
 * Imagination
 * Introspection
 * Intuition
 * Magical thinking
 * Mental rotation
 * Metacognition
 * Naming
 * Problem solving
 * Rumination
 * Schema
 * Semantic generalization
 * Sexual fantasy
 * Social cognition
 * Thinking
 * Thought suppression
 * Transposition
 * Vigilance
 * Volition

Cognitions
These processes give rise to cognitions, the products of cognition, which include:


 * Attitudes
 * Beliefs
 * Concepts
 * Delusions
 * Expectations
 * False beliefs
 * Hallucinations
 * Imagery
 * Insight
 * Intentions
 * Ideas
 * Irrational beliefs
 * Schemas
 * Thoughts