Cognitive approach
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- Created on: 12-06-17 14:17
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- COGNITIVE APPROACH
- DETERMINISM AND NATURE
- EMERGENCE OF NEUROSCIENCE
- combines the study of brain damage, neuropsychology, cognitive, functional neuroimaging and computer modelling.
- non invasive methods of study. (FMRI's, PET scans) enable psychologists to study the different cognitive process and brain localisation.
- BURNETT ET AL 2009
- Found that when people feel guilty several brain regions are active, including the medial pre frontal cortex, the are associated with social emotions
- INFORMATION PROCESSING MODEL
- input- processing- output
- input from the environment and the senses. Processing the information once encoded. Output; the behavioural response
- the mind operates like a computer
- EVALUATION
- POSITIVE
- neuroscience elevates the scientific status of psychology
- NEGATIVE
- Schemas cannot be observed within the brain
- TM over simplify extremely complex mental processes
- comparing people to computers = lack of free will
- studies used in CA lack ecological validity
- POSITIVE
- THEORETICAL MODELS
- MSM and WMM
- theoretical models allow psychologists to devise individual experiments in order to test each component
- ASSUMPTIONS
- Thought process can be and should be studied scientifically
- the mind works like a computer
- input - process - output
- Stimulus and response is appropriate but only if the thought processes that occur between s&r is recognised
- SCHEMAS
- Bartlett 1932
- participants remembered the main idea of the story (the gist) but they changed unfamiliar elements to make sense of the story by using terms more familiar to their own cultural expectations.They used their own schema of the story in order to make sense of it.
- Bartlett 1932
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