Cognitive Approach

Question 1

What are 2 assumptions of the cognitive approach?

Answer 1

mental processes can be regarded as information processing - Episodic Buffer/CE

‘mental processes can be scientifically studied - locus of control

Question 2

What is 1 limitation of the cognitive approach?

Answer 2

Lacks ecological validity -Whilst the results of laboratory-based experiments e.g., Miller’s STM capacity experiment,
yield objective, empirical data which can be repeated to ensure consistency, the results may lack ecological validity and generalisation to everyday life, as the influences on
individuals aside of the lab, may be very different to when in the controlled environment.

Question 3

1 strength of CA

Answer 3

Real life application -contributed to AI and eye witness testimony

Question 4

What is cognitive neuroscience and what is 1 strength? + application

Answer 4

  -scientific study of brain structures, mechanisms, processes, chemistry that are responsible for thinking processes
-it uses scanning techniques and neurotypical people to locate cognitive processes in the brain

Use of scanning/imaging techniques to study mental processing patients with depression or OCD or in children with autism or dyslexia

Question 5

What is inference?

Answer 5

going beyond the immediate evidence to make assumptions about mental processes that cannot be directly observed.

Question 6

What is schema and how can we apply?

Answer 6

schema help us predict what will happen in our world based on our experiences + process vast amounts of information rapidly

schema can distort our interpretation of sensory information + lead to inaccurate EWT