the cognitive revolution

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  • burner good now and austing in 1956 conducted the systematic study of how people form concepts
  • burner and austing highlited the role of strategies in thinking
  • broadbent in 1958 proposed the computer mind analogy
  • describing how computers and minds have short term memory and channels of limited capacity
  • and how processing is carried out individually
  • cogntive psychology is the scentific study of mental processes such as perception memory attention langauge
  • cognitive psychology and neuroscience establishes the link between psychological functions perceptions language and memory and their biological underpinning
  • like the complexity of the brain other applications include language risk taking mental health