Sensing, Perceiving, Learning & Thinking: Experimental Psychologists
If you have ever wondered how acute your vision is, how you experience pain, or how you can most effectively study, you have raised a question that is most appropriately answered by an experimental psychologist. Experimental psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the process of sensing, perceiving, learning, and thinking about the world.
The work of experimental psychologist overlaps that done by biopsychologists, as well as that done in other branches of psychology. Actually, the term “experimental psychologist” is somewhat misleading, since psychologist in every branch use experimental techniques, and experimental psychologist do not limit themselves to only experimental methods.
Several subspecialities have grown out of experimental psychology and have become central parts of the field in their own right. For example, cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that specializes in the study of higher mental processes, including thinking, language, memory, problem solving, knowing, reasoning, judging, and decision making. Covering a wide swath of human behavior, cognitive psychologists have, for instance, identified more efficient ways of remembering and better strategies for solving problems involving logic.
Source:
Robert S. Feldman. Understanding Psychology. McGraw Hill, 1990
