Discussion unit 9 history of Psychology

History of Psychology Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Course Name & Code Instructor’s Name Date History of Psychology Cognitive psychology entails studying internal mental processes functioning inside the brain, such as thinking, perception, language, and learning. One central tenet of cognitive psychology is information processing, which entails a mental process of obtaining, storing, and utilizing knowledge. Another tenet is the schema theory, which is concerned with understanding how the brain structures knowledge (Nickerson, 2024). Besides, attention and perception are crucial principles. Attention refers to people's capacity to process information in their surroundings and avoid irrelevant details. Perception involves people's capability of becoming aware of their environment by establishing meaning from whatever is acquired by sensory organs like skin and eyes. Moreover, mental representation refers to physically-achieved, information-containing structures in the mind that help a person to process, perceive, understand, and recall every stimulus. Finally, cognitive development entails how humans obtain, organize, and understand how to utilize knowledge from childhood to adul...