The Theories, Concepts and Models in Cognitive Psychology Is Visible in Our Everyday Lives

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of your life. What do you want to have for breakfast? What time should you meet a friend for dinner? What college should you go to? How many children do you want to have? When faced with some decisions, you might be tempted to just flip a coin and let chance determine your fate. In most cases, we follow a certain strategy or series of strategies in order to arrive at a decision.

For many of the relatively minor decisions that we make each and every day, flipping a coin wouldn’t be such a terrible approach. For some of the complex and important decisions, we are more likely to invest a lot of time, research, effort, and mental energy into coming to the right conclusion. For example, imagine that you are interested in buying a new camera. You create a list of important features that you want the camera to have, then you rate each possible option on a scale of -5 to +5. Cameras that have important advantages might get a +5 rating for that factor, while those that have major drawbacks might get a -5 rating for that factor. Once you have looked at each option, you can then tally up the results to determine which option has the highest rating.

Memory is also main point in cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychologist Margaret W. Matlin has described memory as the “process of retaining information over time.” Others have defined it as the ability to use our past experiences to determine our future path. When they are asked to define memory, most people think of studying for a test or recalling where we put the car keys. However, memory is essential in our everyday lives. Memory have many sub parts. Those are Long term memory, Short term memory, Sensory memory, Procedural memory, Semantic memory, Episodic memory and etc… These all memories we use day to day life and we can see examples for those.

Long- term memory consists of the memories that happened more than a few minutes ago. For example, anything that you remember that took place more than a couple of minutes ago is stored in long-term memory. Once a memory is stored in long-term memory, it can last anywhere from a few minutes to the rest of your life. If someone tells you their phone number, would you have any problem remembering it 25 seconds later if asked to repeat it, even if you never dialed it? Probably not, right? So how does this happen? The answer is short-term memory. Procedural memory, which is a subset of implicit memory, is a part of the long-term memory responsible for knowing how to do things, also known as motor skills. Some examples of procedural memory: - Playing piano, Ice skating, playing tennis, Swimming, Climbing stairs

Semantic memory is not connected to personal experience. Semantic memory includes things that are common knowledge, such as the names of states, the sounds of letters, the capitals of countries and other basic facts that are not in question. Some examples of semantic memory include: - Knowledge that the sky is blue, knowing how to use a knife and fork, remembering what dog is, etc.

Episodic memory is a person’s unique recollections of a specific event or an episode. Some examples of episodic memory: - Where you were and the people you were with when you found out about the Challenger space shuttle disaster, your beach vacation last summer, the first time you traveled by plane, your first day at a new job, the restaurant you went to on your first date with your spouse, etc.

Cognitive psychology refers to the study of human mental processes and their role in thinking, feeling, and behaving. Perceptions, memory, acquisition of knowledge and expertise, comprehensions and production of language, problem solving, creativity, decision making, management of emotional responses and reasoning are some of the broad categories of such study. These theories, concepts, models we can see at everyday everywhere. According to all of these points, finally we can say cognitive psychology is very practical and useful subject area and we should need that