Approaches: The Cognitive Approach

Question 1

What Is The Cognitive Approach?

Answer 1

• The term cognitive means mental processes.

- This approach is focused on how our mental processes such as thoughts, perceptions and attention impact behaviour.

Question 2

What Is Internal Mental Processes?

Answer 2

• Private operations of the mind such as perception and attention that mediate between stimulus and response.

Question 3

What Is Schema?

Answer 3

• A mental framework of beliefs and explanations that influence cognitive processing.
• They are developed from experience.

Question 4

What Is Inferences?

Answer 4

• The process whereby cognitive psychologists draw conclusions about the way mental processes operate on the basis of observed behaviour.

Question 5

What Is Cognitive Neuroscience?

Answer 5

• The scientific study of biological structures that underpin cognitive processes.

Question 6

Cognitive Approach Assumptions.

Answer 6

• The mind actively processes information from our senses.
• Argues that internal mental processes can and should be studied scientifically.
• Mediational processes occur between stimulus and response.
• Human are information processors and therefore resemble computers - information is transformed, stored and retrieved from memory.