Considers psychology to be the study of internalmentalprocesses e.g. memory, perception
Cognitive approach
Highlights the role of schema (mentalrepresentations of knowledge and experience) to enable us to process vast amounts of information quickly and predict what will happen in our world based on our experiences
Cognitive approach
Proposes that mental processes can be studied indirectly by making inferences about mental processes that cannot be directly observed
Cognitive approach
Uses models to provide testable theories about mental processing, such as information processing
Cognitive neuroscience
Aims to relate mental processes to brain structure, and combines thinking and biological structures
Cognitive neuroscience
Uses scanning techniques to gather data, and uses neurotypical individuals to locate the physical basis of cognitive processes in the brain
