Cognitive psychology deals with the mental processes like memory and problem solving. It is also concerned with internal processes such as attention, perception, thinking, reasoning and language. However in the past these processes were studied by means of laboratory tasks, however it has become clear that the cognitive approach is very useful when understanding developmental issues, social functioning and treatment of many mental disorders.
Biological psychology however brings together biology and psychology to understand behavior and thought it also looks at the link between biology and psychological events such as how information travels throughout our bodies.
The roots of cognitive psychology has existed for the last 2,000 years Neisser (1967) (cognitive psychologist) published the ‘cognitive psychology' as Neisser states cognition begins with sensory input, he says that our cognitive processes are most useful in responding to information that is present in the world and......
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