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Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the mental processes underlying behavior, including perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. It examines how people acquire, encode, store, retrieve, and use information, treating the mind as a system that …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 8 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 161× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-612X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the mental processes underlying behavior, including perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. It examines how people acquire, encode, store, retrieve, and use information, treating the mind as a system that processes and represents knowledge. Emerging in the mid-twentieth century as an alternative to purely behavioral accounts, cognitive psychology draws on experimental methods, computational models, and, increasingly, neuroscientific techniques to explain how internal representations and processes give rise to thought and action. Its findings inform many applied fields, including education, clinical and psychotherapeutic practice, human factors, and the design of intelligent systems. Within the scope of psychotherapy practice and research, cognitive psychology is especially relevant because understanding mechanisms such as attention, emotion regulation, and conflict control underpins cognitive and behavioral interventions. This page draws on the journal's peer-reviewed, open-access research that bears directly on cognitive processes, including a study of the cognitive mechanism by which emotional validity influences conflict control and an analysis of how abstract concepts are represented from the perspective of conceptual metaphor theory. Together these works illustrate how cognitive psychology investigates the structure and function of the mind and connects basic mental processes to behavior and well-being.

Research published in this journal

8 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Dissociative Amnesia – A Challenge to Therapy  

Staniloiu AngelicaCorresponding author
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research Cited by 30 doi:10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-18-2246

How this research is being cited

The 8 articles above have been cited 161 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Cognitive Psychology, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research (ISSN 2574-612X).

Journal editorial board
Karim Sedky · United States Tullio Scrimali · Italy DAMIANA SCUTERI · Italy

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.