AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The cognitive revolution was a period during the 1950s-1960s when cognitive psychology replaced Behaviorism and Psychoanalysis as the main approach in psychological fields. Increasing focus was placed on observable behaviors in conjunction with brain activity and structure.

Detailed explanation-2: -The cognitive revolution was an intellectual shift in psychology in the 1950s focusing on the internal mental processes driving human behavior. The study of human thought became interdisciplinary by directing attention to processing skills including language acquisition, memory, problem-solving, and learning.

Detailed explanation-3: -The cognitive revolution helped legitimize the scientific study of consciousness, but the legitimization of consciousness was by no means inevitable, because there were some important aspects of the cognitive revolution to which consciousness was at best irrelevant, at worst opposed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Steven Pinker claims that the cognitive revolution bridged the gap between the physical world and the world of ideas, concepts, meanings and intentions. It unified the two worlds with a theory that mental life can be explained in terms of information, computation and feedback.