approaches ; cognitive approach

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COGNITIVE APPROACH
DFGD
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- assumptions
dfg
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argues what can and should be studies scientifically?
internal mental processes
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as result investigate areas negelcted by behaviourists like?
memory / perception / thinking
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can these processes be observed?
no
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so they're studied indirectly how?
by making inferences about whats going on
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in basis of?
their behaviour
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- theoretical and computer models
dfg
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what is the important theoretical model?
information processing approach
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also use computer models in which?
mind compared to a computer
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by suggesting similarities in?
way info is processed
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these models use concept of the brain as a?
central processing unit
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concept of coding which is?
turning info into useable format
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and use of what to hild info?
stores
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computer models of mind have proved useful in development of?
artificial intelligence
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- role of schema
dg
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what are schema?
packages of ideas / info dev thru exp
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act as a mental framework for doign what?
interpreting incoming info from cognitive system
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its a package of information learned from?
experience
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that helps to what?
respond to object appropriately
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what kind of shcema are you born with?
simple motor schema for innate behaviours
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as we get older our schema become?
more detailed and sophisticated
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schemas enable us to process what quickly?
lots of info
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andd this is a useful mental short-cut that prevents us from?
being overwhelmed by environmental stimuli
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but they also distort our interpretations of sensory information leading to?
perceptual errors
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EVALUATION
FGDF
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:) scientific and objective methods
dfg
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involves use of what kind of experiments?
lab
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to produce what kind of data?
reliable and objective
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in addition emergnge of what allowed cog and bio work 2geva?
cognitive neuroscience
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means study of the mind has established what kind of basis?
credible scientific
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:( machine reductionism
dfg
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what about it is machine reductionism?
computer analogy
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bc ignores influence of what on cog system?
human emtion / motivation
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and how this may affect our ability to?
process information
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research has found human memory may be affected by wat factors?
emotional
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such as the influence of what on eyewitnesses?
anxiety
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:( `everyday life application
dfg
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only able to do what with mental processes?
infer them
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as consequence cog suffers from being too?
abstract ad theoretical
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experimental studies pf processes are often carried out isng what kind of stimuli?
artificial
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which may not represent?
everyday memory experience
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therefore research may lack what?
external valdity
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EVAL EXTRA
DFG
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:) real-life application
dfg
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made an important contribution to what scientific field?
AI development
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:) less determinist than other apporaches
df
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what kind of determinism?
soft
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recognises cog sys can only operate within?
limits of what we know
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but we are free to do what before stimulus responding?
think
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this is what kind of position?
more reasonable and interactionist
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