Cognitive Approach
- Created by: julyfirst
- Created on: 10-09-19 10:29
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- Cognitive
- Assumptions
- Internal mental processes should be studied
- Study indirectly by making inferences about them
- Theoretical and computer models
- Information processing- flows through input, storage and retrieval (like the multi-store model)
- Based on how computers work through programming instructions
- Schema
- Ideas and information developed through experience
- Mental framework
- Born with simple motor schema but we develop a more sophisticated schema which allows us to process information quickly
- Distorts our sensory information leading to perceptual errors
- Neuroscience
- Influence of brain structures on mental processes
- fMRI and PET scans allow scientists to observe neurology
- Evaluation
- Machine Reductionism- ignores human emotions and how this may affect the way we think
- Scientific- uses lab experiments to produce objective and reliable data so is credible scientifically
- Applications- concepts are often too abstract and theoretical in nature as they derive from experiments with artificial stimuli
- Less Deterministic- recognises that our cognitive system can only operate from the limits of what we know and that we are free to think before responding to a stimulus
- Assumptions
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