COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cognitive psychology mean? 

• COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (noun)
  The noun COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes

  Familiarity information: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (noun)

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Meaning:

An approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cognitive psychology" is a kind of...):

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cognitive psychology"):

memory (the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes)

problem solving (the area of cognitive psychology that studies the processes involved in solving problems)

psycholinguistics (the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance)

Holonyms ("cognitive psychology" is a part of...):

cognitive science (the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind)