Cognitive Approach (1960s) Flashcards
Cognitive approach
(1960s)
- Can’t be directly observed
Cognitive approach - key terms?
- Internal mental processes
-cognitive neuroscience - inference
-Schema
Key terms: Cognitive approach?
Cognitive = mental processes
→ focuses on how mental processes affect behavior
Key term: cognitive neuroscience?
- (scientific) Study of biological studies that support cognitive processes
Key term: internal mental processes?
- ‘Private’ operations of the mind (eg thoughts + perception + attention)
Key term: inference?
- How cognitive psychologists draw conclusions abet how mental processes operate on the basis of observe behavior
Key term: schema?
- Framework of beliefs expectados
- developed from experience
(Eg Chan = 4 legs, wood, back rest)
2 models psychologists use to understand internal mental process?
- Theoretical model
- computer model
Theoretical model?
→ information processing approach
Suggests.. Info flows through cognitive system in sequence of stages that include input, storage, and retrieval (multi-storage model)
Computer model?
→ human mind compared to a computer
(Concept of a central processes unit (the brain)
Schema - babies?
-Born w/ simple motor schema
→ innate behavior (sucking + grasping)
Schema → why is it useful but potentially maladaptive?
- Predictable
- can’t get out of habit
-help us process info fast - can lead to stereotypical behavior
How do advances in scans help cognitive neuroscientists?
Helps them study the neurological base of mental processes
How studied? → base of mental processes
(What was the experiment)
- Through inferences based on behavior
Experiment: inferred that you perceived rat/man because you were exposed to diff images
Aim of cognitive neuroscience?
- To map specific cognitive functions to areas of the brain
→ eg) fMRI + PET scars allow psychologists to and diff types of long term memory (episodic + semantic) are located in opposite sides of the prefrontal cortex
