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    Foundation to

    Psychology
    Sri Parami Rajapaksha
    MPhil in Psychology (R) UOP
    BA (Hons) in Psychology UOK
    N.Dip in Counselling
    COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

    • Studies about internal mental process.


    • This is relatively young branch of psychology recently derived.
    • Predominant during the period between the 1950s and 1970s.
    • Based on basic assumptions,
    1. Mediational process between stimulus and response.
    2. Psychology is a science
    3. Humans are information processors
    • There are many topics discussed under cognitive psychology.
    Attention
    Choice-based behavior
    Decision Making
    Forgetting
    Information processing
    Language acquisition
    Memory
    Problem Solving
    Speech perception
    Visual perception
    Thinking
    • “Thinking is a mental activity in its cognitive aspect or mental activity
    with regard to psychological aspects”. - Ross-
    • Make new connections and create meaning.
    • It's an active process.
    • Thinking is a unique process.
    • As well it is symbolic and covert. Covert is because that is only known
    by the person. Symbolic because it uses mental images and symbols.
    • Ther are different types of thinking.
    1. Perceptual or concrete thinking : Focuses on experiences or physical
    objects. Totally based on what we see, hear, taste or experience.

    2. Conceptual or abstract thinking : Thinking about concepts or things


    that are not actually present. Based on deeper meaning of things.

    3. Reflective thinking : Reflection of past experiences or a problem to


    solve the problem.

    4. Creative thinking : Thinking in an innovative or new way.

    5. Non-directed or associative thinking : Thinking without specific goal.


    Enabling thoughts to flow uncontrollably.

    6. Critical thinking : Person in stepping aside from his own personal


    beliefs, prejudices and opinions to sort out the faiths and discover the
    truth.
    Jean Piaget's Cognitive
    Developmental Stages
    1. Sensory Motor Stage

    Based on senses and motor activities.


    From birth to two years.
    By 8 months babies develop OBJECT PERMANANCE.
    That is a milestone of thinking.
    2. Preoperational Stage

    Age two to seven years.


    Symbolic function (Age 2-4).
    At this stage child uses symbolic thinking/ symbols excessively.
    Create mental images of things.
    Pretend play
    Irreversibility
    Centration
    Ego centrism
    Animism
    INTUITIVE THOUGT (Age 4-7) :- Child begin to use primitive
    reasoning
    Helps in developing sequence of events during familiar situations
    3. Concrete Operational Stage

    From age 6-11 it is CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE


    Logical thinking develops
    Develops inductive reasoning
    Identity :- Understand that some qualities do not change
    Reversibility
    Conservation ability
    4. Formal Operational Stage

    Abstract thinking develops.


    Idealistic thinking develops.
    Could do experiments.
    Argumentativeness
    Indecisiveness.
    Self-consciousness.
    Personal fable.
    Finding fault with authority.
    THANK YOU !

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