Why can cognitive psychology be seen as following in the tradition of Kantian philosophy? Why can it be seen as marking a return to faculty psychology? A return to the mind-body problem?
Study of the human cognition was done by the Miller and the Broadbent by incorporating the use of the computer. They believed that the both human mind and the computer programs functions as the device, which is responsible for solving the problems. This believes raised the interest of the psychologists to derive the relation between the humans and the computers. They concluded the similarities between the computers and the human like both possesses the memory and both respond to the input to provide the output.
Cognitive system in human remains active as it is strictly follows the environmental inputs. Cognitive system is defined as the process of study of mental processes including memory, problem solving, thinking, creativity and memory. Cognitive psychology found to follow the Kantian cognitive psychology and the rationalistic philosophy. Most of the psychologist considers the Kant as the founder of the cognitive psychology.
Kant postulated the thoughts that are the faculties of mind, which perform their function on the set of sensory information. He founded the basis of the cognitive psychology as the faculties of mind, which are responsible for the process of the information. Relationship of the psychology with the phrenology caused the discard of the psychology as association with the phrenology.
Information psychology caused the return of the faculty of the psychology. This discovery of the fact that brain is found to be organized into the group of cells or modules and each are already assigned with the definite set functions. The mind-body problem revisit caused due to the cognitive psychology. This problem was further solved by the radical behaviorist as they have assumed the physical monism or materialism. Cognitive psychology founded on the assumption of the presence of the mental events.