The cognitive approach
- Created by: Hanna_subba
- Created on: 20-01-17 08:23
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- The cognitive approach
- internal mental processes
- scientific study
- memory
- perception
- thinking
- indirect study
- infreneces
- theoretical and computer models
- info. processing approach
- info flows through cognitive system
- input
- storage-hold info
- retrieval
- multi store model
- mind compared to computer
- coding
- known as artifical intelligence
- info. processing approach
- schemas
- beliefs/expectations
- packages of info developed through experience
- mental framework
- babies:motor schemas & visual input
- older- more detailed and sophsticated
- quickly process, mental short cut
- cognitive neuroscience
- scientific study: brain structures on mental processes
- 1860s: brain mapping
- last 20 years- fMRI & PET scans
- neurological basis of mental processes
- eg mental disorders- OCD
- neurological basis of mental processes
- scientific study: brain structures on mental processes
- scientific & objective methods
- high control
- infer cognitive processes
- lab experiments
- reliable & objective data
- credible scientific basis
- machine reductionism
- ignores human emotions & motivation
- eg- memory affected by human emotions
- application to EDL
- too abstract & theoretical in nature
- experimental studies use artificial stimuli
- lack external validity
- RL application
- dominant approach
- applied to practical & theoretical contexts
- less deterministic than other approaches
- soft determinism
- free to think before responding to stimuli
- interactionist position
- internal mental processes
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