Cognitive Approach

Cards (8)

  • 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.