Cognitive Approach - 1950s

Subdecks (3)

Cards (25)

  • Mind works like a computer
    Simple input output system, criminals may act because they believe it is the best action
  • Schema
    Cognitive framework that helps to organise and interpret information in the mind
    Help us to interpret data , fill in gaps in the absence of the full information about a person , event or thing
  • Inference
    Drawing conclusions about the way mental processes operate on the basis of observed evidence
  • Semantic Memories
    Memory of out knowledge of the world
    Recalled from the left prefrontal cortex
  • Episodic Memories
    Memories of personal events
    Recalled from the right prefrontal cortex
  • Brain imaging techniques have rapidly developed allowing Psychologists to systematically and objectively observe the neurological basis of mental processes
  • Computer models are software simulations of internal mental processes - AI
    You program a computer to carry out the mental processes and see the outcome
  • Computer Analogies
    Comparing mental processes to computer process