Cognitive Approach

• Internal mental processes involve how we process information to guide our behaviour.
• Schemas are cognitive frameworks that help organise and interpret information.
• Theoretical models are simplified representations of mental processes based on research evidence.
• Computer models use computer analogies to represent human cognition, so the mind works like a computer.
• The cognitive approach takes a scientific approach using the experimental method.
• The cognitive approach uses computer models to explain human cognition, but there are important differences between computer processing and human processing.
• The cognitive approach takes a scientific approach, using the experimental method to collect and evaluate evidence.
• The computer analogy suggests that information comes in an input, gets processed, before being stored or deleted as output.