Cognitive approach
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 29-05-19 13:53
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- Cognitive approach
- Basic assumptions
- Thought processes should be studied scientifically
- Considered introspection as too unscientific
- The mind works like a computer
- Thought processes should be studied scientifically
- Schemas
- A collection of ideas that a person forms about past experiences that helps them to understand the world
- Bartlett (1932) Native American folk tale, remembered then recalled
- Details were changed to fit an individual's schema
- Theoretical models
- Support scientific testing of theories
- Allows components to be tested individually and in detail
- Emergence of cognitive neuroscience
- Using biology to explain cognition
- Brain imaging techniques (e.g. PET and fMRI scans) shows how brain structures affect cognition
- Evaluation
- High scientific rigour due to empirical methods
- Describes basis for behaviour that allows treatment
- e.g. Cognitive behavioural therapy
- Reductionist as ignores genetic and emotional factors
- Use of lab experiments
- Highly controlled and standardised, highly replicable
- Artificial set-up so lacks ecological validity
- Basic assumptions
- Input
- Processing
- Output
- Info encoded from environment
- Encoded info is then processed
- Behavioural response
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