The Cognitive Approach
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- The Cognitive Approach
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- It is about mapping brain areas to specific cognitive functions
- In the 1860's Broca identified that frontal lobe damage could permanently impair speech production
- It has emerged as technology has advanced and scanning machines have advanced to look at brain activity
- It always employs highly controlled and rigorous methods of study
- It lacks ecological validity as it is conducted in a lab so the behavior may be artificial
- The lab study produces reliable and objective data
- Assumptions
- Internal mental processes should be studied
- It investigates memory, perception and thinking
- It makes inferences on what is going on inside people's minds based on behaviours
- The mind is like a computer as it has inputs and outputs
- They prefer objective, controlled and scientific studies
- Schemas
- Schemas are packages of information developed by ecperience
- They act as a mental framework for what to do in situations
- As we age schemas become more detailed and sophisticated
- They enable us to process lots of info quickly and it's like a mental shortcut
- Cognitive Neuroscience
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