The cognitive revolution was launched by
A) George Miller.
B) Sigmund Freud.
C) B. F. Skinner.
D) William James.

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George Miller is credited with launching the cognitive revolution with his 1956 paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information." This paper challenged behaviorism and popularized the study of mental processes and information processing in psychology. Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and William James are all important figures in psychology, but they did not play a pivotal role in the cognitive revolution.

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