Cognitive Flashcards
What is a strength of the cognitive approach?
Strong scientific methods
Useful applications
What is the weaknesses of the cognitive approach?
Can be over simplistic and reductionist
Ignores free will in humans
Low ecological validity
What are the similarities between cognitive and social?
Lab experiments
Lack ecological validity
What are the differences between cognitive and social?
Social scientists can make cause and effect claims
Cognitive is internal processes
Social can have a time and cultural bias
Similarities between cognitive and individual differences?
Practical applications
Useful research
Differences between cognitive and individual differences?
Cognitive is more scientific
Individual differences implies we are all different whereas cognitive implies we are all the same
Similarities between cognitive and developmental?
Small samples
Both useful
Differences between cognitive and developmental?
Cognitive is quantitative data whereas developmental is mainly qualitative
Similarities between cognitive and physiological?
Lab experiments and controlled conditions
Both lack ecological validity
Weaknesses of cognitive and physiological?
Cognitive is based on internal processes
Physiological is based on chemical processes
Cognitive is deterministic
Physiological reductionist
Similarities between cognitive and psychodynamic?
Both use small samples
Both lack validity
Differences between the cognitive and psychodynamic approaches?
Psychodynamic is based on qualitative data
Similarities between cognitive and behavioural?
Both use experiments
Both lack ecological validity
Differences between cognitive and behavioural?
Cognitive bases assumptions on internal processes
Behavioural is a stimulus effect
Behaviourists do animal research whereas cognitive does not
What is the cognitive approach?
Behaviour can be explained in terms of how the mind works
The mind works in a way that is similar to a computer e.g. Imputing, processing, storing, retrieving.
