Cognitive Approach Flashcards

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What are the two main assumptions of the Cognitive Approach?

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  • Psychologists must study mental processes scientifically, this makes it a response to the behaviourist approach
  • The mind works like a computer, information processing model
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What are the three stages of the information processing model?

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Input, processing, output

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What is schema theory

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The fact that we have a schema, which is a mental framework which we form from our experiences and guides our expectations of future experiences

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What is Assimilation in response to Schema theory?

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-When an experienced matches our schema
- this can cause us to alter details when recalling memories to match our schema

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What is accommodation in response to schema theory?

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  • changing our schema to make sense of new experiences
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Who conducted a supporting study of Schemas?

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Bartlett, 1932

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Outline Bartletts study into schemas

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  • Asked ppts to read a Navaho folk tale
  • ppts then had to recall the story
  • he measured how many details ppts got wrong and found that they changed details to match their schemas
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What are two strengths of the cognitive approach?

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  • Highly scientific, inferences are made based off of observable behaviour and empirical evidence
  • Can be applied to the treatment of mental disorders for example Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
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What are two weaknesses of the cognitive approach?

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  • Experiments may lack ecological validity
  • Ignores the possibility that there are individual differences in people’s mental processes
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