History and Development of Cognitive Psychology

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  • Herman Helmholtz

    Physicist and phisiologist. Worked on visual perception.

  • Herman Ebbinghaus

    Doctor of philosophy. Worked on memory. "The forgetting curve."

  • Fredrick Bartlett

    Worked on memory. Disliked labratory researched and preferred naturalistic research. Particularly worked on schema.

  • Cognitive Revolution

  • George Miller

    Father of cognitive psychology. Wrote "The Magic Number 7." Recall and how recall is better when you chunk information.

  • Broadbent

    Worked on perception and communication. Thought that information had to pass through a filter before you remembered things.

  • Chomsky

    Worked on language aquisicion. "Verbal behaviour."

  • Ulric Neisser

    Coined the phrase "cognitive psychology". Wrote "Cognitive Psychology". Worked on perception, attention, language and memory.

  • Anderson

    Started the Journal of Cognitive Science.

  • Steven Pinker

    Wrote "The Blank Slate". Works on psycholinguistics and visual cognition.