Cognitive Approach
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- Cognitive Approach
- Assumptions
- Argues that internal mental processes should be studied scientifically
- Investigated areas of the human brain that was ignored by behaviorists
- Processes are private and can't be observed.
- They are studied indirectly by making inferences about what is going on in peoples mind based on their behavior
- Processes are private and can't be observed.
- Theoretical and computer models
- Both theoretical and computer models are used to help understand the internal mental processes
- Computer models are concrete whereas theoretical models are abstract
- Information processing approach suggests information flows through the cognitive system in stages which includes input, storage and retrieval - MSM
- Based on the way computers function but the computer model would involve programming the computer to see if instructions produce a similar output to humans. If they do then a similar process is going on in the human mind.
- Role of schema
- "Packages" of ideas and information developed through experience
- Mental framework for the interpretation incoming information received by the cognitive system
- Babies are born with simple motor schemas for innate behaviour
- When we get older our schema becomes more detailed and sophisticated
- Adults have a developed mental represenationof everything around us
- When we get older our schema becomes more detailed and sophisticated
- Schema's enable us to process lots of information quickly and it is a mental 'short-cut' that prevents us from being overwhelmed by environmental stimuli
- Schema's can distort our interpretations of sensory information which leads to perceptual errors
- Emergence of cognitive neuroscience
- Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific study of the influence of brain structures on mental processes
- Brain imaging techniques (eg fMRI ) has enabled scientists to systematically observe and describe the neurological basis of mental processes
- Scanning techniques have been proved useful in establishing the neurological basis of some mental disorders
- Focus on cognitive neuroscience has allowed computer-generated models to "read" the brain.
- Led to the developing of mind mapping techniques.
- Evaluation
- Scientific and objective methods
- Highly controlled and rigorous methods of study to enable researchers to infer cognitive processes at work.
- Use of lab experiments to produce reliable data
- Study of the mind has established a credible scientific basis
- Use of lab experiments to produce reliable data
- Highly controlled and rigorous methods of study to enable researchers to infer cognitive processes at work.
- Machine reductionism
- Similarities between the human mind and the operations of a computer it has been criticized
- Machine reductionism ignores the influence of human emotion and motivation on the cognitive system and how this may affect our ability to process information
- Similarities between the human mind and the operations of a computer it has been criticized
- Application to everyday life
- Cognitive psychologists are only able to infer mental processes from the behavior that they observe in their research
- Cognitive psychology occasionally suffers from being too abstract and theoretical in nature
- Similarly experimental studies of mental processes are often carried out using artificial stimuli
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- Similarly experimental studies of mental processes are often carried out using artificial stimuli
- Cognitive psychology occasionally suffers from being too abstract and theoretical in nature
- Cognitive psychologists are only able to infer mental processes from the behavior that they observe in their research
- Scientific and objective methods
- Assumptions
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