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What is the cognitive approach overall

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How our mental processes for example thoughts, perceptions and attention affect our behaviour

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What is the assumption of this approach to do with our brain’s capacity

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Our mental systems have a limited capacity - the amount of information that can be processed will be influenced by how demanding the task is and how much other information is processed

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What is the assumption of this approach to do with control mechanisms

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A control mechanism oversees all mental processes - this will require more processing power for new tasks, leaving less available for everything else

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What is the assumption of this approach to do with the flow of information

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There is a two-way flow of information - we take in information from the world, process it and react to it and we also use our knowledge and experiences to understand the world

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What are the main research methods used

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  1. laboratory experiments - very scientific and reliable and well controlled
  2. field experiments - takes place in a natural situation
  3. natural experiments - making observations in a naturally occurring situation
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What is the flow of the information processing model

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Input –> processing –> output

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What is the information processing model used for

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  • used to explain mental processes
  • used to make inferences (intelligent guesses) about mental processes
  • compares a human to a computer
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What is the schema

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A ‘package’ of ideas and information developed through experience and helps you to organise and interpret information and experiences

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What does schema affect

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Behaviour

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What is role schema

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Ideas about the behaviour which is expected from someone in a certain role, setting or situation

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What is event schema

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These are also called scripts and contain information about what happens in a situation

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What is self-schemas

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They contain information about ourselves based on physical characteristics and personality as well as beliefs and values and they can affect how you act

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What are some problems with schema

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They can stop people from learning new information
- prejudice and stereotypes can be an outcome of schemas
- schema which hold expectations or beliefs about a certain subgroup of people may bias the way we process incoming information

This can lead to faulty conclusions and unhelpful behaviour and perception errors

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Who commenced the emergence of the cognitive approach

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Paul Broca in the 1860s and he identified damage to the frontal lobe could permanently affect speech

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Who formed the ‘cognitive neuroscience’ and when

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Miller in the 1970s

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What is the lesion study method used for (brain scanning)

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To see if the brain damage changes behaviour

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What is the electrophysiology method used for (brain scanning)

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Using electric and magnetic fields to measure brain activity and brain waves

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What is the neuroimaging method used for (brain scanning)

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Pinpointing areas of the brain which are active when a task is performed

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What happens in the hypothalamus

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Homeostasis

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What happens in the hippocampus

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Regulates emotions, learning and memory

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What happens in the amygdala

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`Processes emotions

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What happens in the medulla oblongata and brain stem and what is it responsible for

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Unconscious brain controls heart rate, breathing and swallowing

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What is the cerebellum responsible for

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Co-ordination and balance

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What happens in the corpus callosum

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Is the bridge between the two sides of the brain and integrates motor, sensory and cognitive performance

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Label this brain (warning not all may need to be included)

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A = parietal labe | B = gyrus of the cerebrum | C = corpus callosum | D = frontal lobe
E = thalamus | F = hypothalamus | G = pituitary gland | H = midbrain
J = pons | K = medulla oblongata | L = cerebellum | M = transverse fissure | N = occipital lobe

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What is the frontal lobe responsible for

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Executive functions, thinking, planning, organising and problem solving, emotions and behavioural control as well as personality

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What is the motor cortex responsible for

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Movement

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What is the sensory cortex responsible for

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Sensations

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What is the parietal lobe responsible for

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Perception, making sense of the world, arithmetic and spelling

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What is the occipital lobe responsible for

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Vision

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What is the temporal lobe responsible for

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Memory, understanding, language

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What did Tulving et al. do

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  • He used PET and fMRI scans to systematically observe neurological basis in mental processing
  • Tasking involving episodic (personal memory store) and semantic (knowledge of the world store) memory may be located at different sides of the pre-frontal cortex
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What is the left-side of the brain responsible for

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Involved in recalling semantic memories

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What is the right-side of the brain responsible for

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Involved in recalling episodic memories

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What did Braver et al. do?

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  • Participants were given tasks that involved the central executive whilst having their brain scanned
  • greater activity in the left pre-frontal cortex - the activity increased as the task became harder
  • working memory model - as demands on the CE increase, it has to work harder to fulfil its activity
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What part of the brain is involved in the processing of unpleasant emotions

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The left parahippocampal gyrus

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What is linked to the left parahippocampal gyrus

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OCD and impairment to frontal lobes (controls logical thinking)

38
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Label the lobes shown in this diagram

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Blue - frontal lobe
Yellow - parietal lobe
Pink - occipital lobe
Green - Temporal lobe

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What are some advantages of the scientific methods used in this approach

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  • Employs highly controlled and rigorous methods of study in order to enable researchers to infer cognitive processes at work
  • Lab experiments - reliable and objective data produced
  • biology and cognitive psychology now work together
  • credible scientific basis
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What are some negatives of this approach to do with machine reductionism

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  • ignores the influence of human emotion and motivation on the cognitive system and how this may affect our ability to process information
  • human have an unreliable and unlimited memory - computers have a limit but it is reliable
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Give some negatives of this approach to do with application to every day life

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  • Only able to infer mental processes from behaviours observed
  • Too abstract and theoretical in nature
  • Use artificial stimuli that may not represent everyday memory experience
  • May lack external validity
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Give a positive of this approach to do with mental health

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CBT (cognitive behavioural theory)
- Patients learn how to notice negative/faulty thought conditions and test how accurate they are
- Goals are set to think positively/adapt thoughts

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What is a real-life application of this approach

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Cognitive psychology has made important contributitions to the study of artificial intelligence (AI) and the development of thinking machines (robots)

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What is determinism

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It proposes that all behaviour has a cause and is predictable

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Is this approach more or less deterministic than other approaches

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Less - it recognises that our cognitive system can only operate within the limits of what we know, but that we are free to think before responding to a stimulus

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