AREAS OF EXPLANATION

Cognitive psychologists have sought to explain:

• memory, e.g. Atkinson and Shiffrin's mullet‑store model of the input, storage and loss of information, etc.

• perception, e.g. Gregory's theory on the role of mental processes in influencing/organising visual stimuli

• attention, e.g. Broadbent's filter model

• artificial intelligence, e.g. Rumelhart and McClelland's parallel distributed network models

• social cognition, e.g. the effects of stereotypes on interpersonal perception

• cognitive development, e.g. Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development