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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: -Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science.

Detailed explanation-3: -The cognitive approach began to revolutionize psychology in the late 1950sand early 1960’s, to become the dominant approach (i.e., perspective) in psychology by the late 1970s. Interest in mental processes had been gradually restored through the work of Piaget and Tolman.

Detailed explanation-4: -The cognitive revolution occurred in the 1950s and was an intellectual shift explaining the internal mental processes responsible for determining human behavior. This interdisciplinary approach to understanding human thought included studying language acquisition, memory, problem-solving, and learning.