cognitive approach

Question 1

what are the key assumptions of the cognitive approach?

Answer 1

• interested in internal mental processes
• experimental and scientific methods, study indirectly and make inferences
  -human mind and computers share similarities, and the mind can be studied as such.

Question 2

what are inferences?

Answer 2

assumptions about mental processes that cannot be directly observed

Question 3

what are internal mental processes?

Answer 3

operations in the mind such as memory, language, attention, etc.

Question 4

what are schema?

Answer 4

beliefs and expectations that influence cognitive processing. they are developed from experience

Question 5

what are theoretical/computer models?

Answer 5

models of how mental processes work in computer terms, e.g. the MSM

Question 6

what is cognitive neuroscience?

Answer 6

the study of how biological structures influence cognitive processes.

Question 7

AO3 - RS

Answer 7

objective scientific methods, strong scientific credibility
however relies on inferences, mainly theoretic

Question 8

AO3 - RWA

Answer 8

developments in treating depression, also improving EWT cognitive interview

Question 9

AO3 - machine reductionism

Answer 9

ignores influence of emotion and motivation on the cognitive system