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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychology > Cognitive Science > Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive Psychology  

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  • Branch of psychology that explores the operation of mental processes related to perceiving, attending, thinking, language, and memory, mainly through inferences from behavior. (APA Dictionary of Psychology. https://dictionary.apa.org/cognitive-psychology, accessed 3/22/2021).

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  • 2022

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000090182

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