Cognitive Approach Flashcards
What are the assumptions of the cognitive approach
Thought processes can be studied scientifically
Mind works like a computer
What’s schema
Collection of ideas about a person or situation formed through experience and which helps individual to understand and predict the world around them
We see our own versions of reality
Why do we believe our mind works like a computer
Processes info
Input ( data vs senses)
Output (printout vs behaviour)
Memory
Evaluation of the cognitive approach
Laboratory experiments so lacks validity
Use of models can be seen as over simplifying complex processes
Critiqued for comparing people to computers - seeing ppl as mechanistic and lacking free will
WHATS COGNITIVTE NEUROSCIENCE
mapping human behaviour to brain function