Cognitive approach

• What makes a consequence?

  the thinking process between an event and a consequence
• What are the two key features of abnormal thinking?

  cognitive triad and errors in logic
• What is the schema?

  a cognitive framework that helps organize and interpret information
• how can the schemas be useful?

  They allow us to take shortcuts in interpreting the vast amount of information that is available in our environment
• What are computer models?

  software stimulations of internal mental processes that are created in collaboration with computer scientists. I.e. the multistore model of memory
• what is cognitive neuroscience?

  an academic field that studies the influence of brain structures on mental processes
• Evaluation of the cognitive approach

  -uses objective, scientific methods, has practical application, based on machine reductionism