ABSTRACT
Cognitive psychologists are primarily interested in the underlying representations that allow us to think, speak, understand language, remember, and reason. To pursue these interests, cognitive psychologists must carefully design clever experiments that will reveal the workings of hidden representational systems. This ability to design experiments and the interest in the hidden workings of the human mind have made cognitive psychology a vastly successful enterprise. Although scientists are not often (and of course should not be) satisfied with their progress, in just 40 years cognitive psychology has made tremendous contributions to our understanding of the human mind.
