COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND INFORMATION THEORIES

Ever since the emergence of experimental psychology in the seventeenth century, there has been a consistent interest in the study of higher mental processes. This interest may be traced back to the beginning of the scientific revolution. This fascination dates all the way back to when the field was first established. Nevertheless, in the late 1950s, a discontinuous event happened that was so significant that it is now referred to as the "cognitive revolution," and the understanding of the mental processes that it created is referred to as "cognitive psychology." What ended up happening was that American psychologists turned away from behaviorism and embraced a model of the mind that was based on computers. To put it another way, the cognitive revolution was the implementation of a model of the mind that was based on computers. The concise history that has been presented here covers the history of mainstream cognitive psychology from the commencement of the cognitive revolution till the beginning of the twenty-first century. This timeline covers the history of cognitive psychology as it is generally accepted today. The development of this history was assisted in part by Hilgard (1987) as well as Kessel and Bevan (1985). In the field of psychology in the United States, behaviorism was the dominant theoretical framework employed for most of the time between the 1920s and the 1950s. He restricted his thinking to the concepts of stimulus and response and put a large focus on the associative learning process, particularly as it connected to non-human animals. He believed that humans were the only species capable of this kind of learning. The behavioral school of thought placed a significant amount of emphasis on the process of associative development. The collapse of behaviorism was not brought on by concepts originating inside the field of psychology; rather, it was brought on by three research methodologies that had nothing to do with the study of psychology. These new ideas and theories about signal processing and communication had a significant impact on psychologists who were working during the war years. New ideas and theories about signal processing and communication were created during World War II