Cognitive Assumptions

Question 1

(1) What is the computer analogy?

Answer 1

Comparing the human mind to a computer (input, store, output)

Question 2

(1) What is the multistore model?

Answer 2

Information is input to the brain through the senses and moves to the short term memory store and then to the long term memory store where it is ouputted when required

Question 3

(2) What are internal mental processes?

Answer 3

Sees humans as information processors. essential cognitive processes all work together to enable us to make sense of, and respond to the world around us.

Question 4

(3) What is a schema?

Answer 4

Schemas are organised packets of information that are built up through experience and stored in our long term memory

Question 5

(3) How do we create schemas?

Answer 5

Derived from past experiences, but can be refined through further interactions with people and the world around us