Definition:
- Broad Definition: Empirical Investigation of mental events and knowledge involved in recognizing an object, remembering a name, having an idea, understanding a sentence and solving problems.
- Scientific Definition: The empirical investigation of mental processes used in percieving, remembering, thinking and the acting of using these processes.
Cognitive psychology is not only centered to everything what happens in everyday life, it is even central to psychologist's quest to understand how of the behaviour. The scope of cognitive psychology could be understood by understanding its sub disciplines and the work done in it.
1. Social Psychologists:
Social psychologists try to investigate the mental processes involved in thinking about others.
2. Clinical Psychologists:
Clinical psychologists investigate the role that mental processes play in psychopathology.
3. Developmental Psychologists:
Developmental psychologists study about the ways that cognitive processes change throughout the life span.
4. Neuropsychologists:
Cognitive psychology is also related with neuropsychology, in which neuropsychologists try to understand the association between mental processing and brain activity.
5. Organizational Psychologists:
Cognitive psychology plays its role in industrial or organizational set up where in organizational psycholohists are insisted to know how cognitive processes such as remembering and decision making strategies work out in organizational or industrial workplace.
