Role of Perception in Cognitive Psychology
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Describe the role of perception in cognitive psychology.
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Describes the role of perception in cognitive psychology. Supplemented with articles on perception.
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1. Describe the role of perception in cognitive psychology.
Cognitive Psychology is concerned with advances in the study of memory, language processing, perception, and problem solving, and thinking (Logan, 2009, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622807/description#description).
Thus, as one key area of study, perception plays a major role in Cognitive Psychology. Specifically, perception is the conscious mental registration of a sensory stimulus (Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. ?2007 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc). Said another way, perception are mental processes by which intellectual, sensory, ...
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