Cognitive

Question 1

Define internal processes

Answer 1

‘Private’ opérations of the mind such as perception and attention that mediate between stimulus and response

Question 2

Define schema

Answer 2

Mental framework of beliefs and expectations that influence cognitive processing.

Question 3

Define inference

Answer 3

Process whereby cognitive psychologist draw conclusions about the way mental processes operate on the basis of observed behaviour

Question 4

Cognitive neuroscience

Answer 4

The scientific study of biological structures that underpin cognitive processes

Question 5

What is the cognitive approach

Answer 5

Focuses on how our mental processes affect behaviour

Question 6

Assumptions- theoretical and computer models

Answer 6

Information flows through the cognitive system in a sequence of stages
Mind is compared to a computer and information is processed same way

Question 7

Assumptions- schema

Answer 7

Packages of ideas and info developed through experience

Act as a mental framework for the incoming info received your the cognitive system

Question 8

Assumptions- neuroscience

Answer 8

Advances in brain scanning techniques; it helps understand basis of mental processes
Scanning techniques have provided useful info

Question 9

Strengths of cognitive

Answer 9

Uses scientific and objective methods
Application to everyday life
Less determinist to other approaches

Question 10

Limitations of cognitive

Answer 10

Based on machine reductionism

Lacks external validity