COGNTIVE APPROACH Flashcards
what does the cognitive approach argue?
internal mental processes should be studied scientifically
the cognitive approach investigates…
areas of human behaviour neglected by behaviourism e.g. memory, perception and thinking
what do cognitive psychologists make?
inferences about what is going on inside people’s minds
cognitive psychologists use both what?
theoretical and computer models to help understand mental processes
what is an important theoretical model?
information processing approach recognises input, storage and retrieval e.g. multi-store model
what is the information processing approach based on?
the way computers function
what has computational model of the mind improved?
artificial intelligence
what is schema?
a mental framework of beliefs and expectation that influence cognitive processing
what are babies born with?
innate motor schema such a sucking and grasping
what do we develop as we grow up?
more detailed and sophisticated schema e.g what happens in a restaurant
what does schema enable?
process lots of info quickly
however, what can schema lead to ?
distortion of interp of sensory info leading to perceptual errors
