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Assumptions

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  • mental processes

- internal processes in the mind affecting behaviour

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Features

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Theoretical & computer models
- IP approach - multi storage model
Computer model = AI
Schema
- info package learnt through experience
- mental framework for interpretation of info

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research methods

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  • scientific & objective
  • lab
  • highly controlled
  • low ecological validity
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Strenghts

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  • Helps AI
  • cognitive neuroscience
  • MRI & PET scans to test episodic and semantic memory
  • mental disorders such as OCD
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Limitations

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  • Machine reductionism - doesn’t take into account the influence of human emotion
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Debate

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Soft determinism
Nature
Reductionist

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