Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes. It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems .
It explicitly acknowledges the existence of internal mental states (such as belief, desire and motivation) .
They focus on the way humans process information, looking at how we treat information that comes in to the person (what behaviourists would call stimuli) and how this treatment leads to responses. In other words, they are interested in the variables that mediate between stimulus/input and response/output. Cognitive psychology assumes our behaviour is an internal process including perception, attention, language, memory and thought .
* Tolman (1948) work on cognitive maps – training rats in mazes, showed that animals had internal representation of behaviour.
-One of the famous example of kohler's work on insight involved an ape named sultan . kohlers gave sultan a series of a related problems in which he had to use a stick to reach for a banana which was place outside his cage out of arms reach . after solving such problems on several occasions sultan was then presented with a stick which was not long enough to reach the banana .
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