Before revision: Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science.
After revision: is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.Cognitive psychologyCognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science.