cognitive approach description

Question 1

what is the last assumption for the cognitive approach

Answer 1

behaviour can be explained using the computer analogy

Question 2

what cognitive processes do we use in the process stage of the computer anaology

Answer 2

perception
memory
attention

Question 2

explain computer analogy

Answer 2

compares human mind to how a computer system processes information
how we take in information (input), change it/store it (process) and then recall it when necessary (output)

Question 3

who introduced multi store model of memory

Answer 3

atkinson and shiffrin in 1968

Question 4

what did the multi store model of memory propose

Answer 4

that our memories work in similar ways to computers

Question 5

explain or draw multi store model of memory

Answer 5

stimuli - sensory memory - attention - short term memory - elaborative rehearsal - long term memory - retrieval - short term memory-

Question 6

behaviour can be explained by internal mental process

Answer 6

cog psychologists see humans as info processors

Question 7

name all 4 internal mental processes

Answer 7

perception
attention
memory
language

Question 8

explain perception

Answer 8

how sensory info is processed by the brain

Question 9

explain attention

Answer 9

we pay attention to the object

Question 10

explain memory

Answer 10

we search through our memory store to see if there is a match with something we have already seen or experienced

Question 11

explain language

Answer 11

we are able to use our knowledge of language to name it

Question 12

behaviour can be explained by schemas

Answer 12

schemas guide our knowledge
allows us to predict what will happen
stored in our long term memory
help us make sense of the world can be built up through socail exchanges

Question 13

explain burglar schema

Answer 13

hardly anybody experiences burglaries but we all build p the schema that they are male, young, dressed in black

Question 14

allport and postman 1947

Answer 14

investigated effect on schemas
group of white participants shown pic of arguement between well dressed black man and poorly dressed white man holding a razor
each participant then had to pass on what they can see in the photo
repeated with black participants
after t had been passed around the black man was the aggessor holding the razor
shows schemas are influenced by cultural stereotypes