ABSTRACT
Experimental psychology could be described as the study of the basic processes of psychological functioning. Examples would include the details of how people think, solve problems, make decisions, convert impacting stimuli into perceptions, and store experiences in memory and then retrieve them. Psychologists develop explanations of how such things as thinking, problem solving, learning, and remembering take place and test their explanations. The major purpose of this chapter is to explain the logic that underlies much of contemporary research in experimental psychology and to offer examples of such research.
