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Cognitive Psychology

Category: Sales  ·  Sub-category: prospecting  ·  Last updated:
Core cognitive processes underlying human thought and behavior. Covers attention (selective, divided, sustained), memory systems (sensory, working, long-term, encoding, retrieval, forgetting), perception (top-down, bottom-up, Gestalt principles, perceptual constancy), decision-making (heuristics, biases, prospect theory, bounded rationality), language processing (comprehension, production, Broca/Wernicke, bilingualism), and problem-solving (algorithms, heuristics, insight, functional fixedness, mental set). Use when analyzing how people think, attend, remember, perceive, decide, or solve problems.

About this skill (catalog notes)

Cognitive Psychology includes pricing or quota commentary. At roughly 2,497 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.

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Sales · prospecting
Indexed related skills
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How Cognitive Psychology fits the catalog

Cognitive Psychology sits in the Sales category under the prospecting sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

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From the source SKILL.md

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes -- how people attend to information, encode and retrieve memories, perceive the world, make decisions, understand and produce language, and solve problems. It emerged as a distinct discipline in the 1950s and 1960s when researchers rejected strict behaviorism's refusal to study internal mental states and began modeling the mind as an information-processing system. The "cognitive revolution" drew on information theory (Shannon), linguistics (Chomsky), and early computer science to build testable models of thought.

What this skill does

Cognitive Psychology is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the prospecting sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-psychology/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when analyzing how people think, attend, remember, perceive, decide, or solve problems.

Who uses this skill

The Cognitive Psychology Claude Code skill is built for sales development reps, account executives, revenue operations teams, and customer success managers. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

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mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-psychology
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/cognitive-psychology/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-psychology/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-psychology/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-psychology/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\cognitive-psychology\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Cognitive Psychology Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/cognitive-psychology/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Cognitive Psychology skill do?
Core cognitive processes underlying human thought and behavior. Covers attention (selective, divided, sustained), memory systems (sensory, working, long-term, encoding, retrieval, forgetting), perception (top-down, bottom-up, Gestalt principles, perceptual constancy), decision-making (heuristics, biases, prospect theory, bounded rationality), language processing (comprehension, production, Broca/Wernicke, bilingualism), and problem-solving (algorithms, heuristics, insight, functional fixedness, mental set). Use when analyzing how people think, attend, remember, perceive, decide, or solve problems.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Cognitive Psychology skill?
Use Cognitive Psychology when your Claude Code task falls under the Sales category — specifically in the prospecting area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Cognitive Psychology" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/sales/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Cognitive Psychology skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Cognitive Psychology is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Sales category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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ClaudSkills. (2026). Cognitive Psychology [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/cognitive-psychology/
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@misc{cognitive-psychology-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Cognitive Psychology [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/cognitive-psychology/}
}

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