Cognitive approach - Advantages and disadvantages table in A Level and IB Psychology

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Created on: 16-01-15 09:05

Cognitive approach

Advantages

There is a scientific approach mainly using lab experiments therefore it is high in control thus researchers able to establish the cause and effect.
Usefulness - shows how memory can be distorted by Loftus and Palmer.

Disadvantages

Validity of measuring cognitive processes
Reductionist description of cognitive processes.

Evaluation

The assumption of the cognitive approach is that we are all like machines. In this sense they believe our minds are like computers and therefore we can infer what someone is thinking based on how they act.

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