English: The domain of cognitive psychology focuses on study of higher mental functions with particular emphasis on the ways in which people acquire knowledge and use it to shape and understand their experience in the world. Based on Figure 8.1 in Gerrig, R. J., Zimbardo, P. G., Campbell, A. J., Cumming, S. R., & Wilkes, F. J. (2008). Psychology and life (Australian edition). Sydney: Pearson Education Australia which, in turn, was based on Salso, R. L. (1991). Cognitive psychology (3rd ed.), Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.