Assumptions

• What are the three assumptions?

  Computer analogy

  Schemas

  Internal mental processes
• What is computer analogy?

  Comparing the mind to a computer
• How is the brain like a computer?


  We take in information (input)

  We change / store it (process)

  We recall when necessary (output)
• Computer analogy human example

  The phone recognises human faces in the same way a human recognise faces
• What are internal mental processors

  Essential cognitive processes working together to enable us to make sense of and respond to the world around us

  Features, searching through memory, knowledge of language

  Humans are information processes
• Examples of internal mental processors

  Perception

  Attention

  Memory

  Language
• Internal mental processes human example

  Metacognition

  Awareness and understanding of one’s own processes

  For example, solving a math question
• What are schemas

  Mental structures an individual uses to organise knowledge and guide cognitive processes and behaviour
• How are schemas created?

  They are built up via social exchanges rather than personal interactions (e.g. Burglar)

  They are gaining from past experiences

  Interactions with others and the world around us
• What are the type of schemas?

  Scripts such as the cinema

  Role schemas such as a nurse