Approaches, Cognitive Flashcards
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What are the key assumptions of the cognitive approach?
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- critique of behaviourism
- focuses on how internal mental processes drive behaviour
- schemas
- theoretical & computer models eg MSM
2
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What are schemas?
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- a framework of knowledge that helps process information
- developed through experiences
- prevent brain being overwhelmed by environmental stimuli
3
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What is the key study in the Emergence of Cognitive Neuroscience?
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- Bravel et al (1997), Brain Mapping
- found possible location of CE
- used brain scans whilst participants performed activities involving CE, high activity in prefrontal cortex
4
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What are the pros of the cognitive approach?
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- Less deterministic than other approaches like biological, behaviourism & psychodynamic, we are free to think and respond to stimulus, IMPs, schemas… Although is still deterministic, soft determinism
- Scientific methods (Bravel et al 1997)
- Research support - Loftus & Palmer (1974), study of leading questions impacting EWT, different verbs impact answer, “contacted” mean of 31.8mph, smashed mean of 40.5mph, schemas
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What are the cons of the cognitive approach?
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- Machine reductionism, explains human behaviour by reducing it to internal mental processes, ignores influence of human emotion, example, anxiety on EWT Yuille & Cutshall (1986) gun shop study, scale of anxiety, higher anxiety more accurate accounts
- Lack of scientific merit, relies on inferences as internal mental processes are not measurable