Limitation - Infer

Question 1

What is another problem that ultimately cognitive psychologist are only able to do? What is consequence?

Answer 1

Another problem is that ultimately cognitive psychologist are only able to infer mental processes from the behaviour they observe in their research. As a consequence cognitive psychology occasionally suffers from being too abstract and theoretical in nature.

Question 2

Also, what do many of the studies used in cognitive psychology tend to use?

Answer 2

Also, many of the studies used in cognitive psychology tend to use tasks that have little in common with everyday experiences and as such have been accused of lacking ecological validity.

Question 3

What is an example of psychologist using tasks that have little common with everyday experiences?

Answer 3

For examples, experiments in memory use artificial test materials that are relatively meaningless, often lists of digits- and do not try to understand how memory is used in everyday life.