Cognitive approach
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- Created on: 27-02-23 18:51
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- Cognitive approach
- Fundamental ideas
- Internal mental processes should be studied scientifically
- Behaviours cannot be observed, so they are inferred
- Role of schema
- Packages of information and ideas developed through experience
- Enables us to process a lot of information quickly
- May distort our interpretations of sensory information
- Theoretical and computer model
- Information processing approach
- Information flows through the cognitive system in a sequence of stages
- Input, storage and retrieval
- Information flows through the cognitive system in a sequence of stages
- Computational models compare the human mind to the functions of a computer
- Has helped to develop AI
- Information processing approach
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Scientific study of the influence of brain structures on mental processes
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Uses objective and scientific methods
- Lab studies
- Increases scientific credibility
- Real world application
- Applied to the treatment of depression, and used in eyewitness testimonies
- Uses objective and scientific methods
- Weaknesses
- Lacks external validity
- Uses artificial stimuli
- Based on machine reductionism
- Ignores the influence of human emotions and motivations
- Lacks external validity
- Strengths
- Fundamental ideas
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