It would probably be fair to say that at the moment Cognitive Psychology is the most popular and the most actively developing area of psychology. There are many reasons for it, one of the main ones being development of technology and equipment which allowed to literally look 'inside' the brain. Media has increasingly covered cognitive psychology research more than any other area, which in its turn attracted more funding into the field.
However - what does cognitive psychology actually mean? It is quite a broad term, and we could single out at least four main sub-disciplines: experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, computational cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. In this post, I will explain how these disciplines differ from each other and where the main focus of each of them lies. At first, however, I will briefly discuss how experimental psychology evolved during the XX century.
However - what does cognitive psychology actually mean? It is quite a broad term, and we could single out at least four main sub-disciplines: experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, computational cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. In this post, I will explain how these disciplines differ from each other and where the main focus of each of them lies. At first, however, I will briefly discuss how experimental psychology evolved during the XX century.