Draft:Outline of cognitive psychology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cognitive psychology:

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.

Branches of cognitive psychology

Major research areas

• Categorization
  • Induction and acquisition
  • Judgement and classification
  • Representation and structure
  • Similarity
• Knowledge representation
  • Dual-coding theories
  • Media psychology
  • Mental imagery
  • Numerical cognition
  • Propositional encoding
• Language
  • Language acquisition
  • Language processing
  • • Linguistics
    • Grammar
  • • Phonetics
    • Phonology
• Memory
  • Aging and memory
  • Autobiographical memory
  • Childhood memory
  • Constructive memory
  • Emotion and memory
  • Episodic memory
  • Eyewitness memory
  • False memories
  • Flashbulb memory
  • List of memory biases
  • Long-term memory
  • Semantic memory
  • Short-term memory
  • Source-monitoring error
  • Spaced repetition
  • Working memory
• Perception
  • Attention
  • Object recognition
  • Pattern recognition
  • Perception
    • Form perception
  • Psychophysics
  • Time sensation
• Thinking
  • Choice (Glasser's theory)
  • Concept formation
  • Decision making
  • Logic
  • Psychology of reasoning
  • Problem solving

History of cognitive psychology

• History of cognitive psychology

Persons influential in cognitive psychology

• List of cognitive scientists