HUMAN VS COG

• Cognitive Approach


  Focuses on mental processes, emphasizes thoughts and cognitions, sees humans as information processors
• Humanistic Approach


  Focuses on the whole person, emphasizes personal growth and self-actualization, sees humans as unique individuals
• Humanistic Goals


  To help people realize their full potential, and to promote personal growth and self-actualization
• Cognitive Goals


  To understand information processing, and to develop interventions to improve cognitive functioning
• Humanistic Methods


  Qualitative research, focus on subjective experience, emphasis on empathy and genuineness
• Cognitive Methods


  Experiments, quantitative research, focus on observable behavior
• Cognitive Assumptions


  Humans are rational, behavior is a result of cognitive processes, people can be changed through cognitive restructuring
• Humanistic Assumptions


  Humans are unique, people have capacity for self-actualization, emphasis on subjective experience and personal values
• Cognitive Methodology


  Nomothetic, experimental methods, emphasis on objectivity and control
• Humanistic Determinism


  Indeterminism, emphasizes free will, personal choice, and self-actualization
• Cognitive Determinism


  Soft determinism, acknowledges role of cognitive processes and free will
• Humanistic Methodology


  Idiographic, qualitative methods, emphasis on subjectivity and empathy
• Humanistic Approach: Idiographic


  Focuses on understanding individual experiences and perspectives, uses qualitative methods
• Cognitive Approach: Nomothetic


  Discovers universal laws and principles of cognitive processes, uses quantitative methods