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Cognitive Psychology: Attention · Decision making · Learning · Judgement · Memory · Motivation · Perception · Reasoning · Thinking - Cognitive processes Cognition - Outline Index
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
See also[]
- Cognitive (disambiguation)
- Cognitive assessment
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive maps
- Cognitive processing speed
- Cognitive style
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Conceptual tempo
- Confabulation
- Connectionism
- Declarative knowledge
- Generation effect (Learning)
- Human information storage
- Learning strategies
- Mental event
- Neurocognitive
- Procedural knowledge
- Questioning
- Reality testing
- Social cognition
- Social cognitive theory
- Socially distributed cognition
- Spatial ability
- Strategies