Cognitive

Question 1

Computor analogy

Answer 1

-The biological brain is known as our hardware of our minds, and the cognitive (internal) processes are out of software.
-The brain has an input of data through our senses, which it processes to produce an appropriate output, e.g, action, feeling, or speech.

Question 2

Internal mental processes

Answer 2

-We use a full range of internal mental processes (attention, perception, memory, language, and thinking).
-The processes are interdependent, so rely on each other, and each has an effect on the other.

Question 3

Schemas

Answer 3

-Schemas are organised pockets of information built up through experience and stored in our long-term memory for future expectations, e.g, dog=fluffy, 4 legs.
-Schemas can be refined through further interactions.

Question 4

Cognition

Answer 4

-Thinking and our mental processes.

Question 5

Anology

Answer 5

-An example that we can compare something to in order to explain it.

Question 6

Hostile attribution bias

Answer 6

-Hostile attribution bias is when someone has a bias towards assuming the worst of people and their intentions, so due to their faulty processing, it produces an aggresive, irrational output.

Question 7

Griffith’s study

Answer 7

-Griffith study looked into gambling addiction through introspection while non-gamblers and gamblers play slot machines.
-Gamblers had more irrational thoughts than non-gamblers, which made it harder for them to leave.

Question 8

Negative cognitive triad

Answer 8

-Aaron Beck gave a cognitive explanation for depression suggesting that it is caused by the negative cognitive triad, which involves a person having negative schema for themselves, the world, and the future.