What is cognitive psychology? (intro pack 1)

Question 1

What is cognitive psychology?

Answer 1

deals with internal mental processes, such as language, memory and problem solving

Question 2

How is the brain like a computer?

Answer 2

1. It’s a storage system receiving information from environment
2. processes information and gives an output
3. computer hardware is the structure
4. the software are the experiences we have that we write into the programme

Question 3

What are two assumptions of the cognitive approach?

Answer 3

1. Humans are information processors
2. internal mental processes should be investigated scientifically

Question 4

what does memory mean

Answer 4

the ability to retain and retrieve information