Cognitive Approach
- Created by: EmilyM17
- Created on: 18-10-17 19:52
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- Cognitive Approach
- Inference
- conclusions made about mental processes through observed behaviour. Theoretical and computer models eg. memory
- Internal mental processes
- thinking eg. perception, memory etc
- Thinking, perception, memory, attention, processing, retrieval
- Cognitive neuroscience
- biological structures linked to cognitive processes- fMRI and PET
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Applications
- used in psychopathology to explain and treat conditions eg. OCD, also used in AI
- The use of scientific method
- eg. research into memory
- Less deterministic
- we are free to choose our thoughts
- Applications
- Weaknesses
- Machine Reductionism
- differences between computers and humans ignored. forgetting, ignoring information and mistakes more common in humans
- Emotion and motivation ignored
- Poor external validity
- artificial situation, theoretical models
- Machine Reductionism
- Strengths
- Inference
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