ABSTRACT
The word “cognition” comes from the Latin cognoscere, which means “to apprehend”. Cognitive psychology has evolved over the years to include memory, attention, thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and all of the mental processes that can be thought of as essentially forms of information processing - some psychologists include perception within its scope (see chapter 1.1, Andrew M. Colman, for some comments on the definition of cognition and distinctions between cognitive psychology and cognitive science). The five chapters in this section cover the main branches of cogni tive psychology, and inevitably there is some overlap between their contents.
