Cognitive Contribution to Psychology

A Cognitive Contribution To Psychology <Tab/>The cognitive study of psychology is a viewpoint based on the function of the mind and how it relates to the behavior of an individual. Thus the core of the cognitive study is of mental processes called mediational processes. These mediational processes are defined as processes or events with in an individual that comes between the stimulus and the response. The internal focus of this …

…semantic memory entails general knowledge of the world, the meanings, and episodic memory contains personal experience. The episodic memory is also organized by where and when events happened. Tulving's theory also stated that each of these types of memory function independently of each other. Research on specific types of brain damage (Wheeler et al. 1997) gave support to this theory because the research indicates that different brain regions are used in remembering episodic and procedural memories.