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Many facets of modern social psychology have roots in research done within the field of cognitive psychology. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Social cognition is a specific sub-set of social psychology that concentrates on processes that have been of particular focus within cognitive psychology, specifically applied to human interactions.
This field of study has its historical roots in numerous disciplines including machine learning, experimental psychology and Bayesian statistics.As early as the 1860s, with the work of Hermann Helmholtz in experimental psychology, the brain's ability to extract perceptual information from sensory data was modeled in terms of probabilistic estimation.
Prototype theory is a theory of categorization in cognitive science, particularly in psychology and cognitive linguistics, in which there is a graded degree of belonging to a conceptual category, and some members are more central than others.
Conceptual change is the process whereby concepts and relationships between them change over the course of an individual person's lifetime or over the course of history. . Research in four different fields – cognitive psychology, cognitive developmental psychology, science education, and history and philosophy of science - has sought to understand this pro
The three-stratum theory is a theory of cognitive ability proposed by the American psychologist John Carroll in 1993. [1] [2] It is based on a factor-analytic study of the correlation of individual-difference variables from data such as psychological tests, school marks and competence ratings from more than 460 datasets.
Exemplar theory is a proposal concerning the way humans categorize objects and ideas in psychology. It argues that individuals make category judgments by comparing new stimuli with instances already stored in memory. The instance stored in memory is the "exemplar". The new stimulus is assigned to a category based on the greatest number of ...
Bjork (with his wife, Elizabeth L. Bjork) is a founder and long-time leader of the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab at UCLA and the weekly cognitive psychology research group meeting associated with the lab, both informally known as Cogfog. [9]
It is published by Wiley-Blackwell in a partnership with the Cognitive Science Society. [1] The editor-in-chief is Andrea Bender (University of Bergen). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.284, ranking it 35th out of 85 journals in the category "Psychology, Experimental". [2]