PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

Cognitive psychology has had a broad range of applications, for example to

• memory ‑ to help improve memory through mnemonic devices or to aid the police in eyewitness testimony

• education ‑ Piaget' theory has been applied to improve educational techniques

• therapy ‑ such as the use of Ellis's rational emotive therapy to restructure faulty thinking and perceptions in depression, for example. When combined to form cognitive‑behavioural techniques, effectiveness is improved

• personality assessment ‑ e.g. Kelley's personal construct measurement