Cognitive psychology and cognitive psychotherapy

Psychology is a multi-faceted and versatile science. It has many directions and branches, each of which is oriented to its own understanding of psychic reality and the features of its functioning. Each direction has its own approach to analyzing aspects of the psyche. And cognitive psychology is relatively young, but quite progressive and very popular. This article is devoted to a brief review of this area, as well as a review of the associated therapeutic approach - cognitive psychotherapy.

The concept and brief history of cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychological science that studies the cognitive processes of the human psyche. Research based on the cognitive approach in psychology is focused on the study of feelings, attention, memory, imagination, logical thinking, the presentation of information, the ability to make decisions. In fact, this is a whole concept, focused on the activity of consciousness and the process of cognition.

Cognitive psychology examines the process of obtaining information about the world by the person, how it appears to them, how it is stored in memory and becomes knowledge, and also how this knowledge affects not the behavior and attention of a person. This direction concerns the entire range of mental processes, beginning with sensations and ending with perception, attention, learning, pattern recognition, memory, the formation of concepts. It concerns thinking, language, memorization, imagination, emotions and development processes, as well as all possible behavioral spheres.