Cognitive Psychology
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- Created on: 07-11-16 10:11
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- Cognitive Psychology
- what is it?
- Cognitive psychology is the study of behavior using our mental internal processes. cognitive psychologists think of our brain as a computer system.
- cognitive psychology studies
- Grant Et Al - context dependent memory
- Loftus and Palmer- eyewitness testimony
- behavior
- mental internal processes are how we think and how we process information. this is done internally.
- our mental internal process is like a computer with their internal processing systems
- Strengths
- A viable approach which has been used to create the multi-store model
- takes into account our internal and invisible thought processes that could explain why we behave in a certain way.
- can easily be combined with other processes.
- weaknesses
- Does not take into account genetic factors; for example hereditary correlations of mental disorders.
- to an extent it is reductionist
- Depends largely on controlled experiments to observe human behaviour, which may lack ecological validity
- key assumptions
- behavior is controlled by our own thoughts
- Our behaviour can be explained as a series of responses to external stimuli.
- what is it?
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