Cognitive Approach

• • Thinking
  • Perception
  • Attention
  • Memory
  • Language
  • Problem solving

  ( ANY INTERNAL MENTAL PROCESS )
• Developed as reaction against behaviourist stimulus-response approach.

  It is events within a person that must be studied if behaviour is to be fully understood. ( internal mental processes )

  Believe that it is possible to study internal mental processes in objective way and that insight into mental processes may be inferred from behaviour.

  Concerned with how thinking shapes our behaviour

  S          IP         R

  • Extend idea says that our behaviour is determined by the way we process information taken in from our environment.
• Information processing model

   

  INPUT             STORAGE                    RETRIEVAL                                  

  Senses            Cognitive Processes       Behaviour

   
• Schemata ( plural ) - helps us make sense of the world, by providing short cuts to identifying things that we come across ( our building blocks of knowledge ).

  Schema ( singular )
• Computer analogy

  HARDWARE - brain

  SOFTWARE - thoughts and information