KEY STUDIES AND REFRENCES TO COGNITIVE ATTITUDE.


Key Studies

Peterson and Peterson (1959) - Duration of Short Term Memory
Piaget and Inhelder (1956) - The Three Mountains Task
Loftus and Palmer (1974) - Car Crash Study

References

Atkinson, R. C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1968). Chapter: Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes. In Spence, K. W., & Spence, J. T. The psychology of learning and motivation (Volume 2). New York: Academic Press. pp. 89–195.
Miller, G. A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review, 63 (2): 81–97.
Neisser, U (1967). Cognitive psychology. Appleton-Century-Crofts: New York
Newell, A., & Simon, H. (1972). Human problem solving. Prentice-Hall.
Tolman E. C. (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review. 55, 189–208
Wiener, N. (1948). Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Paris, (Hermann & Cie) & Camb. Mass. (MIT Press).

How to cite this article:

McLeod, S. A. (2007). Cognitive Approach in Psychology - Simply Psychology. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive.html

Further Information

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Theories of Forgetting
Perception Theories
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Information Processing
Language Acquisition
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