Cognitive approach

• Key assumptions (3)

  -the mind is like a computer

  -our IMPs influence our behaviour

  -IMPs can be studied scientifically in a lab setting
• 5 key features

  -Internal Mental Processes

  -computer and theoretical models

  -inferences

  -schemas

  -cognitive neuroscience
• What are IMPs


  Private operations of the mind that can’t be directly observed so we look at someone and make inferences based on visible expressions