Cognitive Approach

Question 1

What does the Cognitive approach suggest

Answer 1

-that our minds 🧠 work similarly to computers 🖥
- input (stimuli from environment 🌳) - process (thinking) - output (behaviour)

Question 2

What are internal mental process’

Answer 2

We receive info through our 5 senses, the brain process’ this info than dictates how we behave.

Question 3

Schemas

Answer 3

> Pocket of info that helps us organise and interpret info based on previous experiences.
-can help us predict what is going to happen
-they develop with experience and become more sophisticated

Question 4

Positives of schemes

Answer 4

-Helps us process a lot of information quickly, which let us know how to behave and saves time 🕰
-stop us becoming overwhelmed by environmental stimuli

Question 5

Negatives of schemas

Answer 5

-can lead to faulty conclusions and unhelpful behaviour eg having panic attack before exam because you did bad in a previous one
-schemas form stereotypes that can lead to inaccurate EWT because of ‘bias recall’ you see what you expect to see rather than what is actually there.

Question 6

What are the theoretical

Answer 6

Multi-store memory model
Working memory model

Question 7

Emergence of cognitive neuroscience

Answer 7

-Scanning the brain to see impacts the brain has on certain behaviour
-used to show neurological basis of some disorders

Question 8

Evaluation of the cognitive approach

Answer 8

✔️-scientific and objective because of brain scans empirical evidence of neurological basis of the brain.
-can help with treatment for certain disorders as can provide therapy.

✖️- comparing human mind to a computer is too simplistic because it does nit take into account emotions and feelings.
- Can’t physically see the the mental process’ of the mind, so how can they be studied ?