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Interesting. I have a Master's in Cognitive Psychology (from long ago, the 1990s), but it was in the domain Human Factors, so I view "cognitive psychology" in a
by rickspencer3 5y ago
Interesting. I have a Master's in Cognitive Psychology (from long ago, the 1990s), but it was in the domain Human Factors, so I view "cognitive psychology" in a very different light than these example. See some common examples like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
Also things involving haptics, echo-location, alarm response, etc...
What these things had in common, I think, is they treated the human mind as pretty much a black box, the dependent measures were not much subject to bias, and the experiments were easy to run on large samples of people. Such findings are pretty useful when designing things like nuclear power plants, airplane cockpits, shock trauma resuscitation bays, etc...