5.4: Mental processes

Question 1

Outline two features of the cognitive approach. Explain two limitations of the cognitive approach (8 marks)

Answer 1

One feature of the cognitive approach is that models can be used to provide testable theories about mental processing and these can be studied scientifically and inferences made

Question 2

Outline two features of the cognitive approach. Explain two limitations of the cognitive approach (8 marks).
One feature of the cognitive approach is that models can be used to provide testable theories about mental processing and these can be studied scientifically and inferences made.
Another feature of the cognitive approach

Answer 2

Another feature of the cognitive approach is that cognition and biological processes can be integrated, leading to cognitive neuroscience as a way forward to understanding human behaviour

Question 3

Outline two features of the cognitive approach. Explain two limitations of the cognitive approach (8 marks).
One feature of the cognitive approach is that models can be used to provide testable theories about mental processing and these can be studied scientifically and inferences made.
Another feature of the cognitive approach is that cognition and biological processes can be integrated, leading to cognitive neuroscience as a way forward to understanding human behaviour.

One limitation of the cognitive approach

Answer 3

One limitation of the cognitive approach is that the focus on detail of exactly what can be recalled by participants in controlled environments means that an understanding of everyday use of memory, for example, is missing from explanations

Question 4

Outline two features of the cognitive approach. Explain two limitations of the cognitive approach (8 marks).
One feature of the cognitive approach is that models can be used to provide testable theories about mental processing and these can be studied scientifically and inferences made.
Another feature of the cognitive approach is that cognition and biological processes can be integrated, leading to cognitive neuroscience as a way forward to understanding human behaviour.

One limitation of the cognitive approach is that the focus on detail of exactly what can be recalled by participants in controlled environments means that an understanding of everyday use of memory, for example, is missing from explanations.
What does this lead to?

Answer 4

This leads to issues of generalisation

Question 5

Outline two features of the cognitive approach. Explain two limitations of the cognitive approach (8 marks).
One feature of the cognitive approach is that models can be used to provide testable theories about mental processing and these can be studied scientifically and inferences made.
Another feature of the cognitive approach is that cognition and biological processes can be integrated, leading to cognitive neuroscience as a way forward to understanding human behaviour.

One limitation of the cognitive approach is that the focus on detail of exactly what can be recalled by participants in controlled environments means that an understanding of everyday use of memory, for example, is missing from explanations.
This leads to issues of generalisation.
Another limitation of the cognitive approach

Answer 5

Another limitation of the cognitive approach is the issue of soft determinism and how there is little room for processes other than internal mental events affecting behaviour

Question 6

Outline two features of the cognitive approach. Explain two limitations of the cognitive approach (8 marks).
One feature of the cognitive approach is that models can be used to provide testable theories about mental processing and these can be studied scientifically and inferences made.
Another feature of the cognitive approach is that cognition and biological processes can be integrated, leading to cognitive neuroscience as a way forward to understanding human behaviour.

One limitation of the cognitive approach is that the focus on detail of exactly what can be recalled by participants in controlled environments means that an understanding of everyday use of memory, for example, is missing from explanations.
This leads to issues of generalisation.
Another limitation of the cognitive approach is the issue of soft determinism and how there is little room for processes other than internal mental events affecting behaviour, for example what?

Answer 6

Another limitation of the cognitive approach is the issue of soft determinism and how there is little room for processes other than internal mental events affecting behaviour, for example biology