A brief history of Cognitive Psychology

1. Challenges to Behaviorism

1.1. Organisms didn't usually behave accordingly (as expected)

1.2. Predictions were inaccurate

1.3. Lack of control or behaviour

2. Early Influences on Cognition

2.1. Computer

2.1.1. Learning, storage, manipulation and memory

2.2. Linguistics

2.2.1. A shift from behaviourism to comprehension structures

2.3. Developmental Psychology

2.3.1. Piaget's emphasis on internal structures

3. Recent Metaphor for Cognition

3.1. Computer metaphor, brain metaphor,

3.1.1. Information is stored, lost, and used in memory as in a computer. Information needs to be translated into different types of data.

4. Pillars

4.1. Philosophy

4.2. Science

4.3. Medicine

5. Brief History

5.1. Different fields helped develop Cognitive Psychology such as Psychophysics, structuralism, functionalism and behaviourism