Cognitive Approach Assumptions

Question 1

background?

Answer 1

Cognitive approach is trying to understand abnomral behaviour/ emotions

Question 2

what are our different cognitive processes?

MPAL

Answer 2

memory, perception, attention, language

Question 3

name of assumption 1?

Answer 3

the computer analogy

Question 4

assumption 1 - explain?

Answer 4

• like comp mind has an input of info from the senses
• we then process this info using our internal mental processes - memory, thinking
• how we processes the input affects the output - how we respond
• brain = seen as hardware
  software = experiences and learned responses, which makes us all diff

Question 5

1- if output is wrong,…

Answer 5

something has gone wrong in p[rocessing

Question 6

assumption 1 - example?

Answer 6

criminal behaviour
input - see someone smile at them
processing - faulty
output - agression - punching someone 
Hostile Attribution Bias

Question 7

Hostile Attribution bias?

Answer 7

tendency to think everyone has a negative inent towards you - paranoid, ANGRY

Question 8

assumption 2 - state?

Answer 8

internal Mental Processes

Question 9

2 - explain

Answer 9

concerned with the full range of mental processes- perception, attention, memory, language, thinking
- the importance of info processing: the cognitive processes can be seen as a a series of info processing systems that work together to understand and respond to the world (integrated system)

Question 10

2- example?

Answer 10

• Griffins used introspection to investigate the Internal Mental Processes of gamblers compared to non gamblers
• Found gamblers thought irrationally - ‘the machine likes me’

Question 11

assumption 3 - state

Answer 11

Schemas

Question 12

what is a schema?

Answer 12

a template, framework, model, mental representation

- a cluster of facts based on previous experiences and used to generate future expectations

Question 13

3 - explain

Answer 13

• schema = clsuter of facts ….
• Piaget sugegsted cognitive development is essentially deveopment of schemas. At a young age, child may call everything with 4 legs and hair a ‘dog’. Through social interaction, the child learns to create various related schemas - one for dog, cat ect..
• schemas get more and more accutrate, development of schemas = develoment of intelligence

Question 14

3 - example?

Answer 14

• child may see dog and form a schema for anything furry with 4 legs
• child would be at equilibrium here
• if child then saw a cat, and registered it in the ‘dog schema’ as it has 4 legs and fur, would be then at disequilibrium
• schema for cat and dog would have to update for equilibrium to be restored