What is Cognitive
Psychology?
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mind and mental
function, including learning, memory, attention, perception, reasoning,
language, conceptual development, and decision making. The modern study
of cognition rests on the premise that the brain can be understood as a
complex computing system.
(“Website” n.d.)
The human brain is an amazing and powerful tool. It allows us to learn,
see, remember, hear, perceive, understand and create language.
Sometimes, the human brain also fails us.Cognitive psychologists study
how people acquire, perceive, process and store information. This work
can range from exploring how we learn language to understanding the
interplay between cognition and emotion.New technologies like magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) allow researchers to see a picture of the brain
at work — helping them to understand how a brain reacts to a
particular stimulus or how differences in brain structure can affect a
person’s health, personality or cognitive functioning.\cite{1}
How does communication work?
Communication is transferring information from one place to another. In
human communication. It is often categorized in forms of verbal, text,
and non-verbal communications. (see. communication studies). With
technology evolving we derived a hybrid of communication method:
Computer mediated communication. (CMC) It is used in day to day life but
rarely address formally or informally about how to use it, when to use
it, and emphasis on visual cues. The neglect of instructions creates
misunderstanding. In this paper, I will be discussing scenarios of
Computer mediated Communication(CMC) using social psychology as a filter
to look at the underlying problem.