internal mental processes

• this approach views human beings as information processors, combining a range of cognitive processes such as attention, memory, perception, language and problem solving in order to make sense of the world around us, and to operate effectively in our environment.
• internal mental processes, are difficult to study, so psychologists use introspection to study it.
• introspection is getting participants to verbally respond to a stimulus, in terms of how it makes them think or feel, in order to record and measure internal mental processes.
• for example, Griffiths (1994) used introspection to study participants playing fruit slot machines, and asked them to "think aloud" when playing. He found that regular gamblers made more irregular verbalisations than non-regular gamblers.