Cognitive Approach

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Information processing
The way we extract, store and retrieve information.
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Schemas
A cognitive framework. Allow us to make 'short cuts' when interpretating information and fill the gaps. Leads to the development of stereotypes.
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Information processing approach
Uses computer analogies. Encoding -> Storage -> Retrieval
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Evaluation: Strengths
Applied to many areas. - Helps explain psychological disorders in terms of faulty cognitions. - It is scientific.
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Evaluation: Limitations
Computers don't make mistakes, ignore information or forget. - Emotion and motivation are ignored. - Tell us the how but not the why. - Lack ecological validity.
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A cognitive framework. Allow us to make 'short cuts' when interpretating information and fill the gaps. Leads to the development of stereotypes.

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Schemas

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Uses computer analogies. Encoding -> Storage -> Retrieval

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Card 4

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Applied to many areas. - Helps explain psychological disorders in terms of faulty cognitions. - It is scientific.

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Card 5

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Computers don't make mistakes, ignore information or forget. - Emotion and motivation are ignored. - Tell us the how but not the why. - Lack ecological validity.

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