Cognitive Psychology - Major Research Areas

Major Research Areas

Perception

  • General perception
  • Psychophysics
  • Attention
  • Pattern recognition
  • Object recognition
  • Time sensation
  • Form Perception

Categorization

  • Category induction and acquisition
  • Categorical judgement and classification
  • Category representation and structure
  • Similarity (psychology)

Memory

  • Aging and memory
  • Autobiographical memory
  • Constructive memory
  • Emotion and memory
  • Episodic memory
  • Eyewitness memory
  • False memories
  • Flashbulb memory
  • List of memory biases
  • Long-term memory
  • Semantic memory
  • Short-term memory
  • Spaced repetition
  • Source monitoring
  • Working memory

Knowledge representation

  • Mental imagery
  • Propositional encoding
  • Imagery versus proposition debate
  • Dual-coding theories
  • Media psychology

Numerical cognition

Language

  • Grammar and linguistics
  • Phonetics and phonology
  • Language acquisition

Thinking

  • Choice (see also: Choice theory)
  • Concept formation
  • Decision making
  • Logic, formal and natural reasoning
  • Problem solving

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