Cognitive Psychology

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Sales · Sub-category: prospecting

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.

What this skill does

Cognitive Psychology is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) 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 skill is built for sales development reps, account executives, revenue operations teams, and customer success managers. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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