Cognitive Approach
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- Created on: 12-05-19 13:21
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- Cognitive Approach
- suggests all behaviour is preceded by a thought
- argues internal mental processes should be studied scientifically
- rather than being observed, internal and mental processes are studied indirectly by making inferences about what's going on in people's minds based on observable behaviour
- schema is a mental framework of beliefs and expectations that influence cognitive processing
- developed through experience
- useful because it allows us to take shortcuts in interpreting vast amounts of information that is available in our environment
- causes us to focus on things that confirm our pre-existing ideas / perceptions
- there are 2 ways of explaining and making inferences about mental processes
- theoretical models
- models which represent how internal mental processes could work
- the computer analogy
- the idea that the brain works in the same way as a computer
- there are 3 things that both these methods use
- concept of a central processing unit (the brain)
- coding (to turn information into a usable format)
- stores (to hold information)
- theoretical models
- cognitive neuroscience is the scientific study of how brain structures affect mental processes
- Paul Broca
- used a post mortem to identify Broca's area in the frontal lobe which affects the ability to speak when damaged
- Paul Broca
- fMRI and PET scans allow us to identify activity in specific areas of the brain responsible for specific behaviours and thoughts whilst the patient is still alive
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