The Cognitive Approach

• Humans provide response to things like computers.
• The main assumption is that cognitive psychologists believe that we must refer to through processes in order to understand behaviour.
• The main assumption is thought processes can be and should be studied scientifically. They therefore feel that introspection is to unscientific and that well controlled laboratory studies can investigate what we are thinking.
• The mind works like a computer in that it has an input from our senses which it process and produces a output.
• Cognitive psychologists endeavor to work out what thought process are occuring from behaviour a person exhibits. Any scientific method to investigate this often time where they are actually unaware of what thoughts led us to behave in a certain way to experiment is really important to understanding those situations.
• A person beliefs or expectations referred to as schemas. It is a cognitive representation of our idea, object or situation developed through experience. Schemas are a cognitive representation. Past experience effect our positive or negative schemas. This processes a lot of information quickly useful as a mental shortcut. Prevents us from being overwhelmed.
• A schema is a mental framework that individualise, organise, process and store information about the environment.
• Computer- Made made

  Limited memory

  Mind- Organic

  Unlimited memory

  Similarities- Process info input

  Output
• Mind:

  Input-Stimulus

  Encoding-How ur gonna work it out

  Storage- Brain

  Retrieval- Use memory

  Output- Behaviour
• Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific study of influence of the brain structure or mental processes on behavior. This shows what part of the brain is active for a person with depression. Discipline has emerged as technology has advanced. Scanning machines have advanced, the ability to investigate how the brain activity might underpin theft.
• Miller and gazzaniga first used the label cognitive neuroscience about 2 years later following the recognition of neuroscience in 1971.
• One strength of cognitive approach is to help doctors understand how to treat a person. If they can find out how different part of the brain work which means it will be easier to identify which part of the brain damages what.
• If we believe thought process turn negatives into positives, this is good for mental health and the body. This will help them study it better.
• Another strength is that there is a lot of research support. Loftus and Palmer did research on misleading information on eyewitness testimony. This means that it can be applied to real life situations.
• The strength of the cognitive approach is that it gave people with anorexia an enhanced cognitive behaviour theory. Psychological treatments for depression and found that cbt was effective.
• Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific study of influence of brain structure or mental process.
• Biological basis to thought process. Discipline has emerged as technology has advanced. Scanning machines have advanced, the ability to investigate the brain activity .
• Miller and gazzaniga first used the label cognitive neuroscience about 20 years later following the recognition of neuroscience in 1971.
• One positive is that it helps doctors understand how to treat a person. This means it can help understand why certain people treat other people in a certain ways and can work out different trends.
• Another positive is that there is research support. This is from loftus and palmer who did research on misleading eyewitness testimony.
• Another positive is that it gave people with anorexic patients enhanced cognitive cognitive behaviour theory.
• Another positive is that psychological treatment for depression found that cbt is most effective
• Another positive is that the cognitive approach is very scientific. This means they are laboratory experiments so variables are highly controlled. This makes it repeatable.
• One negative is that it is to reductionist deterministic which means that people don't have free will which is not necessarily true.
• Another negative is that it lacks ecological validity