Cognitive approach

• What is the cognitive approach focused on?


  How mental processes affect behavior.
• What is a schema in cognitive psychology?


  A mental framework of beliefs and expectations that influence cognitive processing.
• What is cognitive neuroscience?


  The scientific study of biological structures that underpin cognitive processes.
• What is machine reductionism in cognitive psychology?


  It is the criticism that the computer analogy ignores human emotion and motivation.
• How does the cognitive approach apply to everyday life?


  It has been applied to various contexts, including artificial intelligence and therapy.
• What is soft determinism in the cognitive approach?


  It recognizes that cognitive processes operate within limits but allows for free thought before responding.
• How has cognitive psychology contributed to the treatment of depression?


  It has provided insights into cognitive processes that can be targeted in therapy.
• How has cognitive psychology improved eyewitness testimony reliability?


  By understanding cognitive processes that affect memory recall.
• What is the significance of the parahippocampal gyrus in cognitive science?


  It has been linked to learning disorders and emotional responses.
• How does cognitive psychology view the relationship between mental processes and behavior?


  It sees mental processes as mediators between stimulus and response.
• What is the impact of anxiety on eyewitness memory according to cognitive research?


  Anxiety can negatively affect the accuracy of eyewitness memory.
• How does cognitive psychology contribute to artificial intelligence?


  It informs the development of thinking machines and algorithms.
• What is the role of inference in cognitive psychology?


  It allows psychologists to draw conclusions about mental processes based on behavior.
• What is the significance of the cognitive revolution in psychology?


  It shifted the focus from behaviorism to the study of mental processes.
• What is the relationship between cognitive psychology and neuropsychology?


  Cognitive psychology informs neuropsychology by linking cognitive processes to brain function.
• How does cognitive psychology contribute to understanding learning disorders?


  It explores the cognitive processes that may underlie these disorders.
• What are the assumptions of the cognitive approach


  Internal mental processes should be studied

  Investigates behaviour like memory, perception and thinking

  Studied indirectly through inferences
• Evaluations of cognitive approach

  1. Scientific and objective methods- creditable scientific basis as its high controlled
  2. Machine reductionism- computer analogy ignores human emotion and motivation and human emotion may affect memory.
  3. Application to everyday life- lacks external validity because these tests are done with artificial stimuli and they're only able to infer mental processes
  4. Less determinist- founded on soft determinism can only operate within the limits of what we know