cognitive approach

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    • main assumptions
      cognitive psychologists believe behaviour is due to internal mental processes that can be scientifically tested
      comparisons can be made between the human mind and a computer
    • theoretical models
      visual diagrams that show how internal mental processes work
      msm uses arrows and boxes to represent the different memory stores
    • computer models
      cognitive psychology and computer studies share the same vocabulary
      argue mind processes information in the same way as a computer
      ' information processing model '
    • schemas
      cognitive frameworks that are used to speed up information processing
      refined through experience
      allow process of information and inform behaviour in new situations
    • cognitive neuroscience
      combines the assumptions of the cognitive and biological approaches
      creates a map of the brain and identify which brain areas are responsible for certain cognitive functions
      uses scans like fMRI and PET
    • cognitive approach evaluation
      uses scientific and objective methods
      used lab studies to investigate cognitive processes
      can make inferences about the way we process information
      can establish causality due to high degree of control
    • cognitive approach evaluation
      based on machine reductionism
      brain is more complex than a computer
      humans can feel emotions and have free will to say no where as computers always respond to imput
    • cognitive approach evaluation
      soft determinism
      acknowledges our cognitive system functions on certain limits but it also suggests we are free to think before we respond
      however behaviourism suggests behaviour is down to just socialisation
      takes a more reasonable and flexible position