EVAL OF COGNTIVE APPROACH Flashcards

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what three evaluation points are there for cognitive approach?

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scientific and objective methods
application to irl
machine reductionism

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the cognitive approach uses….

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scientific and objective measures

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3
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what does scientific ad objective methods allow?

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controlled and rigorous methods to infer

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4
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the cognitive approach uses ___ experiments

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lab experiments to produce reliable, objective data

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5
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cognitive approach using scientific measures increases the…

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internal validity of experiments and means that we can trust inferences made

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6
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the cognitive approach lacks…

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application to real life

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how does the cog approach lack application to real life?

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only able to infer from behaviour observed in research

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8
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what does cog approach usually suffer from due to inference?

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too abstract and theoretical in nature

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9
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in addition cog approach lacks app to real life due to…

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artificial stimuli such as word list which is unrepresentative of real life

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what does the cog approach lack since it lacks app to real life?

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lacks external validity, we cannot rely on all the information that it gives us because of the way that it is collected

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what is machine reductionism?

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since the cog approach uses computer models, we can see similarities e.g. input, output but it ignores human emotion and motivation

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what is important about human emotion and motivation?

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it affects our ability to process information

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13
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what research show that human memory is affected by emotion?

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influence of anxiety on eyewitness testimonies i.e research into influence of anxiety on memory by Yuille and Cutshall as well as Johnson and Scott

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what does machine reductionism lower in the cog approach?

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the external validity and practical application of the approach because we are not a simple as computers

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