Cognitive Approach Flashcards
Internal mental processes
Perception, attention, memory, language, thinking, and problem-solving
Schema
Mental framework to organise and interpret information
Schema strength
Helps process lots of info quickly
Stops overwhelming by environment
Schema weakness
Inadiquiet not accurate
Excludes anything that doesn’t fit our established iedas of world
Develop harmful stereotypes
Distrot interpretations of sensory info leading to perceptual errors
Use of theoretical model
Subjective as assumption of how the brain funtions in the conscious and unconsious
Use of cognitive model
Proccesses humans go through can be compared to coputers, objective but still suubjective
More scientific
Cognitive neuroscience
Leads to development in technology such as MRI and PET scans to help analyis brain