The Cognitive Approach
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- Created on: 07-01-17 01:23
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- The main assumptions of the Cognitive Approach
- mental processes/info processing can be studied scientifically
- main areas studied within the cognitive approach
- problem solving
- language
- forgetting
- memory
- thinking
- different to behavioural approach
- cognitive approach rarely uses animals, mainly people
- similar to both biological + behaviourist approach
- methods used to investigate are usually laboratory based
- research = based on empirical data (been directly observed)
- research = scientific
- methods used to investigate are usually laboratory based
- main areas studied within the cognitive approach
- introspection can be a valid, scientific method of studying cognitive processes
- criticisms
- subjective
- can we access all our thinking processes?
- two ways of conducting modern introspection
- ask participants to verbalise their thoughts whilst conducting an experiment or solving a problem
- retrospective phenomenological assessment
- ask people to reflect + report on thoughts and feelings
- cannot really be observed (subjective)
- inferred from experiments + what people say they thought about
- criticisms
- conscious and non-conscious thought
- both act as mediational processes between stimulus and respone
- the brain and damage to the brain affects cognition and cognitive processes
- cognitive neuropsychology
- how the brain affects behaviour + associated cognitive functioning
- localisation of function
- brain damaged patients often used to investigate this
- people often suffer damage to several areas of their brains
- difficult to pinpoint an area solely responsible
- the belief that certain parts of the brain are responsible for certain functions.
- Broca's area is involved in language
- Wernicke's area is involved in understanding speech
- the hippocampus is involved in memory
- cognitive neuropsychology
- the mind operates in a similar way to a computer
- computer analogy is used to attempt to understand cognition
- findings and methods used can be applied to other areas of psychology + have practical applications
- The Psychology of Ageing
- understanding dementia + Alzheimer's disease and advice given
- Criminal Psychology
- understanding of cognitive development + conditions such as dyslexia
- Atypical Psychology
- understanding mood disorders + schizophrenia and the associated treatments
- rational emotive therapy
- focusing
- cognitive restructuring therapy
- understanding mood disorders + schizophrenia and the associated treatments
- Criminal Psychology
- issues relating to EWT and the cognitive interview
- The Psychology of Ageing
- mental processes/info processing can be studied scientifically
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