Cognitive Approach

• Schema

  Mental packages of ideas and information developed through experience that helps us process information more quickly
• Schemas can distort our interpretations of sensory information leading to perceptual errors
• machine reductionism


  Comparing the human mind to a machine, ignores influence of human emotions and motivation
• Soft determinism - human behaviour may be determined By external and internal factors but we can also exert our free will at times
• Inferences


  Observing behaviour and making assumptions about the mind