Cognitive Approach
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- Created on: 17-04-13 19:37
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- Cognitive Approach
- Research Methods
- Mental processes
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- focuses on investigations using human ppts
- uses highly scientific methods
- developed successful therapies using cognitive principles
- e.g. cognitive behavior therapy for depression, therapist tries to get depressed person to have more positive thoughts
- explains complex thinking processes (separating into components)
- Limitations
- provides a mechanistic view, little account of emotions and how they interact with mental processes
- ignores individuals and personality differences between people
- experiments tend to lack ecological validity as they are highly artificilal
- ignores biology and the influence of genes
- Strengths
- Basic Assumption
- studies mental processes
- idea that the mind is like a computer
- Internal mental processes e.g. talking, memory
- actively processes information through different senses e.g. sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell
- studied scientifically using controlled experiments in labs
- cognitive or mental processes mediate between stimulus and responce
- Application
- computer models of thought e.g. face recognition programmes
- Case Studies
- Wason (1968)
- Aim: show how people reason and how this might not be entirely logical
- Method: ppts shown 4 cards, had a letter one side and a number on the other. 'if a card has A on one side then it has a 3 on the other' shown 4 cards showing A, B, 2 and 3. asked to turn over only those cards neccessary to discover if the rule was true or false
- Results: most correctly turned over the card with A on it (3 on the other side) few turned over 2 which would prove the rule to be false
- Conclusion: Most people didnt turn over card A and 2. shows pure logical thinking may be difficult for people.
- Wason (1968)
- Research Methods
- Conclusion: Most people didnt turn over card A and 2. shows pure logical thinking may be difficult for people.
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