COGNITIVE

Question 1

Key belief

Answer 1

all beh is a result of thinking

Question 2

Assumptions

Answer 2

• mind actively processes from our senses
• between stimulus and the response are complex mental processes (can be studied scientifically)
• humans can be seen as DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS
• workings of the human mind and a computer = alike , as they both encode and store info and both have OUTPUTS

Question 3

Internal mental processes

Answer 3

-Also known as mediational processes
- occur between stimulus and response
- operations that occur in the MIND

Question 4

Egs internal mental process’

Answer 4

Memory , attention, perception

Question 5

What are the 2 computer analogy’s

Answer 5

• computer model
  -theoretical model

Question 7

Computer model

Answer 7

Software stimulations of internal mental processes that are created in collab w computer scientists

Question 8

Theoretical model

Answer 8

Diagrammatic representations of steps involved in internal mental processes

Question 9

Eg of theoretical model

Answer 9

Info processing model - MSM (Allison and shriffin) suggested information enters brain via senses , and then moves to STM then to LTM .
^ when info is retrieved , it becomes the OUTPUT- just like a computer

Question 10

Schema theory

Answer 10

Mental structures that represent an aspect of the world

Question 11

What’s a schema?

Answer 11

-Packages of ideas/info, developed through experiences
- generated through past experiences , interactions w ppl and the world around , however not always accurate, can be basis of stereotypes

Question 12

Name and outline a study where schemas were due to the basis of stereotypes

Answer 12

Allport and Postman (1947), investigated effect of stereotype on recall
In study showed white pots following pic of black person being held at knifepoint by a white man. When pots asked to recall - they misremembered black man as the criminal

Question 13

Cognitive neuroscience

Answer 13

The scientific study of the influence of the brains structures on mental processes

Question 14

Perception

Answer 14

Ability to see, hear or become aware of something via the senses , the way in which something is understood, regarded or interpreted

Question 16

Inference

Answer 16

Inference is the process of drawing conclusions about general patterns of behaviour from specific observations. Cognitive psychs draw CONCLUSIONS about the way mental processes operate on the basis of observed beh in a lab study