cognitive approach

• Cognitive psychology focuses on internal mental processes such as perception, memory, thinking and problem solving
• The role of a schema is to simplify the processing of information and to help us make sense of the world, acting as a mental framework for interpretation of incoming info
• the cognitive approach believes that the way we interpret our environment resembles how computers process information
• cognitive neuroscience is the study of the brain and its functions in relation to cognition, often using fmri and pet scans
• an example of an application of the cognitive approach is the use of CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) to treat depression
• a weakness of the cognitive approach is that it fails to take into consideration biological factors which may influence thought processes