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Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as ______, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
attention
Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from ______, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science.
behaviourism
This break came as researchers in linguistics and ______, as well as applied psychology, used models of mental processing to explain human behavior.
cybernetics
Work derived from cognitive psychology was integrated into other branches of psychology and various other modern disciplines like ______, linguistics, and economics.
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The domain of cognitive psychology overlaps with that of cognitive science, which takes a more interdisciplinary approach and includes studies of non-human subjects and ______ intelligence.
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