Abstract

THE COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGIST Let us begin by accepting the view that those psychologists who study systematically and investigate objectively the personal, rational, and intellectual factors of the individual and the characteristics of learning and personal development are correctly classified as cognitive psychologists. These psychologists are disciplined professionals who consider, for example, the following behavioral processes as still being significant to human cultural adaptations and deserving of attention and analysis: perceiving and its sensory basis; understanding and its neurological, semantic, and language conditions; conceptualizing, self-recognition, and comparative perceptions of others. All of these conditions are considered by the cognitive psychologist in close relation to the processes of motivation and to learning. Cognitive psychologists, therefore, are not special species of a professional genus. They recognize and accept among other things the importance of central, covert processes that are sometimes termed neurological processes. Among these would be the intellectual maturation of individuals, schedules of ability developments, and appropriateness of training in relation to these socio-organic schedules. These are considered as phenomena

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