Psychology 105 - Cognitive Psychology

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Torwon Luogon

Psychology 105 Assignment

December 15, 2012

Dr. Christopher Block

Money is very important to individual life. I like money because it helps me achieve my goal such as paying my school fees, support my family and some other important thing in my life. I dislike money because money can change a person; I have seen majority of good, hardworking people becoming selfish and rotten just because of money.

Cognitive psychology look at mental processes including how people think, perceive, remember, and learn. As part of the larger field of cognitive science, this branch of psychology is related to other disciplines including neuroscience, philosophy, and linguistic. Some of the possible topics you might explore in this area including thinking, language, intelligence, and decision-making. Other ideas might include: a. Dream, under this area you find false memories, attention span, perception, and b. Problem-solving that is judgment.

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of age-related change through the human life-span. A discipline of scientific inquiry, developmental psychology recognizes human of all societies and culture as beings who are in process, or constantly growing and changing. This discipline identifies the biological, psychological, and social aspects that interact to influence the growing human life-span process. In the 1856-1939, Sigmund Freud early focus of developmental psychology was on child development, or the maturation of children. Within 25years, develop mentalist researchers who study human development- expanded their focus to includes the study of the physical, motor, cognitive, Intellectual, and emotional that occur throughout all stages of the life-span.

Psychoanalytic psychology focus on how thoughts and feelings can affect behavior. Psychoanalysts believe that there are mental processes and feelings in a person’s unconscious. These are outside our natural awareness and eventually the unconscious mental process build up to a point where they are release into a person’s action, thoughts and feelings. Overall, psychoanalysis derives on the idea that behavior is driven by a collection of mental processes, conscious and unconscious.