Are cognitive psychology and psychoanalysis the same?
No, they’re pretty different. Psychoanalysis is mainly concerned with childhood experiences and how a person is shaped. They consider the person to develop in stages, and they believe that certain drives exist that motivate a person, and that all behavior is a result of that drive. Cognitive… well, it’s concerned with inner states and the effect that those states have on behavior. The person does not develop in stages, he simply learns as he goes along. He has a certain self image and an image of the world, and he tries to keep reality congruent with those ideas. (the same thing happens in psychoanalysis, except two different parts of the personality fighting is the cause). Psychoanalysts don’t care about problem solving, memory, and language, they focus on internal processes that manifest themselves in a persons behavior in ways that are very difficult to interpret.
