Cognitive Psychology Practical Applications

Cognitive Psychology has several practical applications in real-world which are given below:

• Moral development
• Eyewitness testimony
• Forgetting
• Selective attention
• Perception
• Child development
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy
• Learning styles
• Information processing
• Cognitive interview
• Education
• Face recognition

• Moral development

This comprises how moral problems change your moral reasoning in the stages of moral development.

• Eyewitness testimony

It is basically the study of how a witness’s evidence is affected by stress, concentrating on a weapon, or leading questions.

• Forgetting

 This region covers long term memory and short term memory.

• Selective attention

Usually, humans have a bounded capacity for paying attention so this studies the selection of what actually deserves our attention out of so many stimuli.

• Perception

This normally covers the processing of sensual inputs and then how the brain turns them into sensual perceptions.

• Child development

This contrasts with the process of cognitive processes as humans grow.

• Cognitive-behavioral therapy

This actually uses the fact that thought-patterns can affect behavior and attempts to help people with their mental health problems.

• Learning styles

     This inspects the different ways by which people learn.

• Information processing

It is basically a comparison between humans and computers according to the way we process information.

• Cognitive interview

This is a way of asking queries that support an eye-witness remember better.

• Education

      Cognitive psychology is very helpful and more effective in learning techniques.

• Face Recognition

This is the fact that we still recognize our friend’s face even if one characteristic of it changes, like a haircut.

Examples of Cognitive Psychology

In everyday life, we experience many examples of cognitive psychology which are given as

• Attention
• Concept formation
• Judgment and decisions
• Language processing
• Learning
• Memory
• Perception
• Problem-solving
• Achieving goals
• Reasoning

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