analyze some of the foundational building blocks

• Competency 1: Explain how the field of cognitive and affect psychology evolved into a recognized psychological discipline.
  • Analyze foundational disciplines, theories, and thinkers of cognitive and affective psychology.
• Competency 2: Evaluate the theories and principles that pertain to the cognitive components of cognitive and affective psychology.
  • Evaluate the impact of foundational disciplines, theories, and thinkers on the cognitive components of the field.
• Competency 3: Evaluate the theories and principles that pertain to the affective components of cognitive and affective psychology.
  • Evaluate the impact of foundational disciplines, theories, and thinkers on the affective components of the field.
• Competency 4: Explain how the theories and principles of cognitive and affective psychology can be incorporated into professional practice.
  • Explain how theories of cognitive and affective psychology influence professional practice.
• Competency 7: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
  • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.

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• You are in a meeting trying to concentrate on a presentation, but a conversation in the hallway outside the conference room threatens to distract you.
• You look up a phone number and repeat it to yourself while you go get your phone so you will not forget it.
• You are driving in an unfamiliar city and consult a street map to find your destination.
• You always associate a particular piece of music with a particular girlfriend or boyfriend with whom you had a bad breakup, and every time you hear that music, you feel sad.

Each of these familiar situations illustrates some aspect of cognitive-affective psychology: attention, short-term recall, visuospatial problem solving, and the role of emotion in memory, respectively. In fact, cognitive-affective psychology involves the study and understanding of day-to-day functions such as memory, language, and other similar processes that are usually transparent to us because our brains mostly carry out these processes automatically.SHOW LESSCognitive Psychology’s InfluenceWhile Ulric Neisser is usually credited with coining the term “cognitive psychology” in his book Cognitive Psychology, published in 1967, the so-called cognitive revolution in psychology had been developing since the 1950s. Noam Chomsky’s critique of the behaviorist approach to language (Chomsky, 1959) and Donald Broadbent’s seminalPerception and Communication (1958) were already challenging the behaviorist orthodoxy that had determined what material was acceptable for the field of psychology to study throughout the middle part of the twentieth century. Cognitive psychology’s influence grew throughout the 1960s and 1970s as it drew on the growing fields of computer science and neuroscience to develop more powerful and persuasive explanations of cognitive phenomena. And in the 1980s and 1990s, the growth of positive psychology and the therapeutic approach of cognitive-behavior therapy moved the field of cognitive psychology to include the role of affect in its understanding of cognitive processes.However, cognitive-affective psychology is not just a product of the twentieth century. In fact, it can trace its roots back to ancient Greek thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle; philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Hume; and neuroscientists such as Broca and Lashley, as well as the influence of giants of psychology such as Sigmund Freud and William James.Given its broad scope, cognitive-affective psychology is perhaps the most integrative of subdisciplines within the field of psychology. It arose from three major streams of influence—philosophy, neuroscience, and the larger field of psychology itself—and it also draws on disciplines as diverse as linguistics, computer sciences, and anthropology. The intersection of these and other fields results in complex and overlapping relationships that touch on virtually every other area of psychology as well as the other disciplines involved and most facets of daily life.ReferencesBroadbent, D. (1958). Perception and communication. New York, NY: Pergamon Press.Chomsky, N. (1959). A review of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior. Language, 35(1), 26–58.Neisser, U. (1967). Cognitive psychology. New York, NY: Meredith.

• How do the disciplines cognitive-affective psychology draws from influence the questions cognitive-affective psychology asks and the research methodologies it uses?
• What are the current issues and questions within cognitive-affective psychology, and how does cognitive-affective psychology affect other disciplines with which it comes into contact?
• What are some of the key debates within the field of cognitive-affective psychology?

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SHOW LESSLibrary ResourcesThe following e-books and articles from the Capella University Library are linked directly in this course: Course Library GuideA Capella University library guide has been created specifically for your use in this course. You are encouraged to refer to the resources in the Cognitive/Affective Psychology Library Guide to help direct your research.Internet ResourcesAccess the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication. Bookstore ResourcesThe resources listed below are relevant to the topics and assessments in this course and are not required. Unless noted otherwise, these materials are available for purchase from the Capella University Bookstore. When searching the bookstore, be sure to look for the Course ID with the specific –FP (FlexPath) course designation.

• Sternberg, R. J., & Sternberg, K. (2012).Cognitive psychology(6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
  • Chapter 1, “Introduction to Cognitive Psychology.”

• Identify five disciplines, theories, or thinkers that have contributed to the development of cognitive and affective psychology as a field. Be sure to include key dates, names, and concepts.
• Evaluate the way each of these building blocks addresses both the cognitive and the affective components of psychology.
• Explain how each of these building blocks influences or contributes to your current or desired professional practice.
• Draw on scholarly literature to support your assertions, and provide concrete examples from your professional experience.
• Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting:Resources and citations should be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
• Length:5–8 double-spaced, typed pages.
• Font and font size:Times New Roman, 12 point.