AS Level Cognitive Approach - Assumptions, Studies, Strengths and Weaknesses
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- Created on: 30-11-12 23:38
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- Cognitive Approach
- Weaknesses
- Reductionist
- Ignores human emotion and freewill.
- Baron Cohen
- Ignores the complexities of human functioning
- Baron Cohen
- Ignores human emotion and freewill.
- Low ecological validity
- Looking at black and white pictures
- Looking at black and white pictures
- Low ecological validity
- Lab experiment
- Not real life
- Loftus and Palmer
- Loftus and Palmer
- Loftus and Palmer
- Not real life
- Videos of car accidents between 5 and 30 secs.
- Lacks emotion of real event
- Lab experiment
- Reductionist
- Strengths
- Useful
- Shows that leading questions can affect memory
- Loftus and Palmer
- Shows that leading questions can affect memory
- Useful
- Shows that our behaviour can be influenced by a cognitive process called theory of mind.
- Shows that our behaviour can be influenced by a cognitive process called theory of mind.
- Useful
- Studies
- Savage-Rumbaugh
- Showed humans aren't unique in the ability to communicate with language,
- Usefu
- Strengths
- Useful
- Shows that leading questions can affect memory
- Shows that leading questions can affect memory
- Useful
- Shows that our behaviour can be influenced by a cognitive process called theory of mind.
- Shows that our behaviour can be influenced by a cognitive process called theory of mind.
- Useful
- Strengths
- Usefu
- Showed humans aren't unique in the ability to communicate with language,
- Savage-Rumbaugh
- Assumptions
- Behaviour can largely be explained in terms of how the mind works.
- Compares the mind to a computer; inputting, storing and retrieving data.
- Weaknesses
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