Cognitive psychology is, in some ways, the prototypical psychological science.
We should note, however, that this mind reading is general . That is, the conclusions from studies are drawn across people, not for any specific individual. The purpose of cognitive psychology is to develop theoretical explanations of how people think, based solely on the evidence of their behavior. Cognitive psychologists assume that the human mind, as instantiated in the human brain, operates on information in the course of interacting with the outside world. This information is represented internally by a pattern of zeros and ones, instantiated as very small electrical charges in very small semi-conductors.