The Cognitive Approach

Question 1

Cognitive Approach

Answer 1

An approach focused on our thoughts and how our mental processes affect behaviour.

Question 2

Internal Mental Processes

Answer 2

Private happenings such as perception and attention that mediate between the stimulus and response.

Question 3

Schema

Answer 3

A mental framework of beliefs and expectations that influence cognitive processing, that we build ideas on. Which are developed from experience.

Question 4

Inference

Answer 4

How cognitive psychologists draw to conclusions about the way mental processes operate based on observed behaviour.

Question 5

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 5

The scientific study of biological structures that underpin cognitive processes.

Question 6

Beck (1987) thinks we become depressed through__________

Answer 6

The world is seen in a negative schema. Including ineptness, self-blame, and negative self-evaluation.

Question 7

Depressives blame external events for their unhappiness is the__________

Answer 7

Ellis ABC Model