Cognitive approach
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- Created on: 04-03-16 13:23
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- Cognitive approach
- Basic assumptions:
- Mind actively processes info from senses.
- Human info processing is similar to that of a computer.
- Machine reductionist
- Computer model
- Role of schemes:
- Schemas are packages of ideas and info developed through experience.
- Act as a mental framework for the interpretation of incoming information received by the cognitive system.
- Building blocks of learning.
- Become more complex as you get older.
- Schemas help you respond to objects appropriately- schema for a chair is something with 4 legs that you sit on.
- Use of models:
- models are used to study internal mental processes.
- Computer model: input from senses, processing from thinking, output is response and storage is memory.
- Information flows through the cognitive system in a sequence of events: input, storage and retrieval.
- Strengths
- adopts scientific procedures to develop and test theories.
- Use of models (computer) helps us understand mental processes.
- Scientific and objective approach
- Less deterministic than other approaches
- application to everyday.
- Limitations:
- Machine reductionist
- Basic assumptions:
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