Cognitive Evaluation Flashcards

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Is the cognitive approach deterministic or free will?

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Determinism - schemas cause behaviours as they are shaped by our environmental interactions

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Is determinism a strength or weakness in the cognitive approach?

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Weakness - runs the risk of removing moral responsibility of people’s behaviours

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Is the cognitive approach reductionist or holistic?

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Reductionist - reduces behaviour down to internal mental processes

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Is reductionism a strength or weakness in the cognitive approach?

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Weakness - overlooks potential other causes of behaviour

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Has the cognitive approach been applied to any areas of society?

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NHS - one of the most used and developed therapies is CBT which derives from the cognitive approach

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Are the applications of the cognitive approach a strength or weakness?

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Strength - benefits many mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, phobias etc.

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Is the cognitive approach idiographic or nomothetic?

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Nomothetic - aims to make generalisations and believes we all process information the same ways and the internal mental processes explains all behaviour

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Is being nomothetic a strength or weakness in the cognitive approach?

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Weakness - overlooks personal factors and individual differences in behaviour

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Is the cognitive approach nature or nurture?

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Considers both internal and external factors but not in enough details

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Is the interactionalism of the cognitive approach a strength or a weakness?

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Weakness - does not properly consider the arguments of both nature and nurture

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Is the cognitive approach scientific or unscientific?

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Scientific - controlled, objective and scientific methods of research - often in labs and brain scanning for memory

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Is the cognitive approach being scientific a strength or weakness?

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Strength - cognitive research is reliable, objective and high in internal validity

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