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The following is a list of academics, both past and present, recognized for their contributions to the field of cognitive psychology. Lise Abrams; Tracy Packiam Alloway;
Miller was born on February 3, 1920, in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of George E. Miller, a steel company executive [1] and Florence (née Armitage) Miller. [3] Soon after his birth, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother during the Great Depression, attending public school and graduating from Charleston High School in 1937.
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. [1] Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical ...
Michael Cole (comparative cognition, cognitive psychology, cultural psychology) Frederick L. Coolidge (evolutionary cognitive archaeology, cognitive evolution, behavior genetics) Roy D'Andrade (cognitive anthropology) Terrence Deacon (neuroanthropology, linguistics) Merlin Donald (psychology, anthropology, historical evolution of cognition)
Cognitive psychology derived its name from the Latin cognoscere, referring to knowing and information, thus cognitive psychology is an information-processing psychology derived in part from earlier traditions of the investigation of thought and problem solving. [1] [2] Behaviorists acknowledged the existence of thinking but identified it as a ...
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field with contributors from various fields, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of mind, computer science, anthropology and biology. Cognitive scientists work collectively in hope of understanding the mind and its interactions with the surrounding world much like other sciences do.
In 1929 he was called to the Institute of Psychology at Yale University as a research professor of psychology where he worked on the problems concerning systematic behavior theory. [3] In 1930, he came to several conclusions about psychology: the first was that he believed that psychology is a true natural science.
The American psychologist John B. Carroll (June 5, 1916 – July 1, 2003) made substantial contributions to psychology, psychometrics and educational linguistics. In 1993, Carroll published Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies , in which he presented 'A Theory of Cognitive Abilities: The Three-Stratum Theory'.