Approaches- Cognitive Approach
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- Created on: 27-04-21 08:54
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- Cognitive approach
- Internal mental processes
- memory
- perception
- attention
- everything is controlled by mental processes
- internal mental processes can be studied by inference
- schema
- 'packages' if information/ mental framework
- represent objects or events
- born with some but are mostly developed with experiences
- create mental shortcuts that can lead to perception errors
- computer model
- input is senses
- Processing happens in the brain
- output is behaviour/feelings
- cognitive neuroscience
- study of biological structures that underpin cognitive processes
- uses PET scans and fMRI scans to learn about how the brain works
- interested in neural processes, memory, awareness, perception, social cognition
- strengths
- soft determinism
- allows for our own thought processes
- accounts for free will and why people respond differently
- real life application
- used in CBT
- improves peoples quality of life
- used in CBT
- scientific credibility
- cognitive neuroscience uses controlled observable methods.
- high internal validity, repeatability
- cognitive neuroscience uses controlled observable methods.
- soft determinism
- limitations
- reductionist
- we don't actually work like computers
- doesn't account for feelings/emotion or circumstance
- incomplete explanation
- lab experiments
- all experiments done in lab conditions
- unnatural environment
- demand characteristic can alter responses- low ecological validity
- unnatural environment
- all experiments done in lab conditions
- reductionist
- Internal mental processes
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