cognitive approach RR
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- Created on: 03-11-14 10:57
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- cognitive approach
- Intro
- primarily focuses on the internal mental processes
- Anderson, research on human performance and attention lead to developments into computer science
- adopts the use of scientific, experimental methods to measure mental processes = rejecting the psychodynamic use of introspection
- advocates the importance of mental processes such as beliefs, desires, motivation
- focus on memory. interested in how individual can learn to solve problems that exist between stimulus and response
- information processing approach
- can be compared to a computer in terms of the mind being a softwear and brain being the hardware
- indivicuals can encode information, store or transform information and provide an output or behaviour
- we can use the information processing model to explain everyday behaviours
- can be compared to a computer in terms of the mind being a softwear and brain being the hardware
- computational and connectionist models
- still used the computer analogy to explain mental processes
- emphasis on how largely to do with the use of stimulus to study human intelligence is structured
- seeks to explain how our cognitive system operates in terms of goals, plans and actions that are involved with performance
- connectionist model uses neural analogy- the mind is made up from a huge array of neurons
- the connections between the neurons form an activationg pattern which represtnets meaningful accociation betwwen environmental and stimuli
- evaluation
- focuses on internal mental processes, unlike behaviourism (S)
- uses scientific experimental methods, unlike humanistic (S)
- models such as information processing approach have been effectively used to explain mental processes (S)
- have been criticised as over simplistic- ignoring complexities of brain (W)
- humans viewed as machines with crude comparison of the mind to a computer (W)
- cognitive theories based on performance of artificial lab tasks = unrepresentative to everyday (W)
- Intro
- can be compared to a computer in terms of the mind being a softwear and brain being the hardware
- indivicuals can encode information, store or transform information and provide an output or behaviour
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