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Cognitive psychology and cognitive therapies

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Psychology for Health Care
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Cognitive psychology is chiefly concerned with experimental investigation of those mental processes to do with knowing and understanding that can either be brought readily into consciousness or revealed experimentally through the careful manipulation of variables.

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© 1998 Bridget Adams and Barbara Bromley

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Adams, B., Bromley, B. (1998). Cognitive psychology and cognitive therapies. In: Psychology for Health Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26634-0_6

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