A heightened interest in cognitive psychology for questions about the awareness and
conscious control people may have of their own cognitive functioning is becoming
more and more apparent, problems which, for many decades, cognitive psychologists
gave no attention to or simply enclosed in parentheses. In the first part of this
paper, an attempt will be made to present an integrated view of the contributions
made by various sections within cognitive psychology, in which such renewed and
growing concern with problems of consciousness manifests itself with increasing
force. This attempt at integration includes various theoretical positions derived
from quite different epistemological traditions (developmental cognitive psychology,
information processing, cognitive-behavioral, and cognitive social psychology), but
which have as their common denominator that they all seek to elucidate the capacity
present in humans to regulate the nature of their own mental functioning and the
development of their cognitive acquisitions. The second part of this paper will
point out the implications, resulting from these new concerns evident in present-day
cognitive psychology, for the still poorly understood relationship between cognition
and behavior. It attempts to show, by considering in turn the cognitive and the
behavioral aspects of this relationship, how one might hope to finally bridge the
gap separating cognition from behavior.
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