![]() For example, lack of understanding of the internal mental processes led to no distinction between memory and performance and failed to account for complex learning (Tinklepaugh, 1928 Chomsky, 1959). It was this last requirement, fundamental to cognitive psychology, that was one of behaviorism's undoings. ![]() Although published inquiries of human cognition can be traced back to Aristotle’s ‘’De Memoria’’ (Hothersall, 1984), the intellectual origins of cognitive psychology began with cognitive approaches to psychological problems at the end of the 1800s and early 1900s in the works of Wundt, Cattell, and William James (Boring, 1950).Ĭognitive psychology declined in the first half of the 20th century with the rise of “ behaviorism" –- the study of laws relating observable behavior to objective, observable stimulus conditions without any recourse to internal mental processes (Watson, 1913 Boring, 1950 Skinner, 1950). ![]() Cognitive psychology in its modern form incorporates a remarkable set of new technologies in psychological science. ![]()
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