cognitive

• Behaviours can be learned through internal mental process(thoughts)
• Conscious thought can influence behaviour
• Mediational process occurs between stimulus and response
• Information processing approach – suggest mind works like a computer
• Studied in lab
• Inference – going beyond the immediate evidence to make assumptions about mental process that cannot be seen directly
• Schema – mental structures which control knowledge based on experience – acts as a guide to behaviour and organises information
• Theoretical model – representation of how the mind works
• Cognitive neuroscience – study of the brain structure -mechanism and chemistry- that is responsible for cognitive processes
• Think internal process can and should be studied scientifically
• Study them indirectly – how someone reacts
• Makes inferences on mind based on behaviour
• Can be affected by beliefs or expectations
• Packages of ideas based on our experiences
• Mental framework – helps process vast amounts of information quickly
• Adults more complex schemas
• Babies born with simple motor schemas
• Helps us to not be overwhelmed but can be distorted by sensory information
• Problems with schemas
• Can be bias
• Perceptual error
• Negative self-schema – mental health
• Can be distorted with our own interpretations
• Group 1 saw photos of animals the diagram – saw animals
• Group 2 saw photos of humans the diagram – saw humans
• Emergences of cognitive neuroscience
• Scientific study of brain structures, mechanics, process and chemistry
• PET and FMRI scanning allow neurologists to identify where brain functioning is happening in brain
• Theoretical and computer model
• Cognitive psychologists study mental process
• Theoretical – abstract simplify representation of how memory works
• Computer – brain stores memories and information like a computer
• Machine reductionism
• Reductionism - is the belief that human behaviour can be explained by breaking it down into smaller components
• Machine reductionism – computer analogy may ignore emotion and motivations and how it may affect our ability to process information – weakens validity of approach
• Soft determinism
• Everything is determined but we still have free will
• Behaviours may be determined by internal and external factors
• Thoughts are freely chosen but only within limits of knowledge and experience
• Hard determinism