Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology with a cognitive approach to understanding human behavior. Cognitive psychology to learn about how people receive, perceive, learn, reason, remember and think about the information. Cognitive psychology can mean two, namely; can be interpreted as a mental activity (perception, memory, attention, etc.) and can also be interpreted as a psychological approach.
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History of cognitive psychology began at the time of Plato (428-348 BC) and his student Aristotle (384-322 BC) debate about how humans understand the nature of knowledge and the world as well. Plato argued that humans acquire knowledge by means of reason logically, referred to as a rationalist. As with Aristotle adopts empirical and believe that humans acquire knowledge through empirical evidence.
This debate is still ongoing as Rationalists opposition from France, Rene Descartes (1596-1650), and Empirical from England, John Locke (1632-1704), with tabularasa. A fisuf Germany, Immanuel Kant, in the 18th century argued that both rationalism and empiricism must work together in proving knowledge. This debate lay the foundation and affect the way of thinking in the field of psychology and other branches of science. Currently empirical understanding of science knowledge base for data retrieval and processing and data analysis using the framework of rationalist thought.