NAME OF SCHOOL: FACULTY OFBUSINESS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT: SOCIAL SCIENCES
COMPUTER NO:
PROGRAM: BARCHELAR of SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS
COURSE CODE: PSY 501
LECTURER: SIKABELE CHIKUBA
STUDENT: CATHERINE MALASA
SEMESTER: 1ST SEMESTER 1ST YEAR
ASSIGNMENT: NO 1
DUE DATE: 22ND MAY 2013
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EMAIL: malasacatherine@gmail.com
CONTACT Address: PO BOX 34858 LUSAKA.
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Choose one of the following…show more content… With the rise of computer science and artificial intelligence, analogies were drawn between the processing of information by humans and information processing by machines. Research in cognition had proven practical since World War II, when it aided in the understanding of weapons operation.[47] By the late 20th century, though, cognitivism had become the dominant paradigm of psychology, and cognitive psychology emerged as a popular branch.
Assuming both that the covert mind should be studied, and that the scientific method should be used to study it, cognitive psychologists set such concepts as subliminal processing and implicit memory in place of the psychoanalytic unconscious mind or the behavioristic contingency-shaped behaviors. Elements of behaviorism and cognitive psychology were synthesized to form the basis of cognitive behavioral therapy, a form of psychotherapy modified from techniques developed by American psychologist Albert Ellis and American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck. Cognitive psychology was subsumed along with other disciplines, such as philosophy of mind, computer science, and neuroscience, under the cover discipline of cognitive science.
Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies mental processes including how people think, perceive, remember and learn. As part of the larger field of cognitive science, this branch of psychology is related to other disciplines including
