Models help explain cognitive psychology

We understood cognitive psychology by having models. The purpose of a model is to simplify.

References

Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology (p. 14)

Models are representations of structures or processes that help us visualise or explain the structure or process.

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• The evolution of model to understand attention
  • Models help explain cognitive psychology, and one of the models that have evolved throughout the study of cognitive psychology is the model of attention.