Explain whether you believe this statement to be true or not?

Question

Cognitive psychologists believe how people think (not just what they know) changes with time and experience, and then human thinking influences actions?

Answer 1

Cognitive psychologists generally do believe this. Cognitive psychology is the study of thinking, so a cognitive psychologist generally operates on the supposition that thinking influences action. Further, the nature of thought is also that it is fluid and changeable, thus what we think and how we think changes. However, this is a very broad topic, so if you study cognitive psychology, the focus of the course will generally be on specific facets of cognition such as language, attention, memory, and problem solving. Cognitive psychologists then create models within those subsections of cognition to better understand and explain their function. Since ways of using language, attention, memory, and problem solving change over time, a cognitive psychologist must also acknowledge that cognition overall (how we think) changes over time.