AQA Psychology Unit 1 Cognitive Approach
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- Cognitive
- Assumptions
- Scientific, experimental methods to measure mental processes
- Behaviour is a result of conscious mental processes
- Investigate mental processes between stimuli and response
- Humans are like computers
- Has programmes to determine responses to certain stimuli
- Stores and retrieves info
- Humans actively organise info from the environment
- Not just learning through association and reinforcement
- Animal behaviour can't be compared to human behaviour
- Against behaviourist
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Scientific
- Experiments
- Can predict behaviour as it's based on theory
- Practical applications
- Therapy eg depression
- Helps patient to have positive thoughts
- Therapy eg depression
- Focuses on internal mental processes
- Other approaches ignored this
- Scientific
- Weaknesses
- Takes complex behaviour and puts into input output device
- Reductionist
- Ignores individual differences and personality
- Against humanist
- Ignores biology
- Takes complex behaviour and puts into input output device
- Strengths
- Use of Models
- Memory model
- Long term and short term
- Computer analogy
- Senses pick up info on stimulus
- info taken to brain, brain processes it
- We respond to stimulus
- We are active processors
- Not passive like behaviourism
- We are active processors
- We respond to stimulus
- info taken to brain, brain processes it
- Senses pick up info on stimulus
- Memory model
- Research
- Neuropsychology
- H.M.
- K.F.
- Clive Wearing
- Looking at the brain
- Broca (1985)
- Cognitive processes changing with brain damage
- Broca (1985)
- Experimental
- Quantitative
- eg Gilchrist & Nesburg
- Quantitative
- Neuropsychology
- Assumptions
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