Cognitive Approach

Question 1

What are two assumptions of the cognitive approach

Answer 1

1. Your brain works like a computer in memory processing, in that information is imputed, then processed, and then output is created
2. Cognitive processing in different people causes different outcomes from person to person- it is dependent on the individual

Question 2

Explain what is measured by the standard deviation [2]

Answer 2

The spread of the data - the average distance from the mean