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cognitive assumptions - Coggle Diagram
cognitive assumptions
schemas
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a cluster of facts based on previous experiences, and used to generate future expectations
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Piaget suggested that cognitive development is essentially a development of schemas. at a young age a child may call everything with four legs and hair 'a dog'. through social interaction the child learns to create various related schemas- one for dog, one for cat etc.
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the computer analogy
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like a computer out mind has an input of of information from the senses. we then process this information using our internal mental processes e.g. memory, thinking and language. how we process the input affects our output which is how we respond (behaviour/emotional response/ what we say etc.)
INPUT see someone with a hostile facial expression, PROCESS 'hostile attribution bias ' assume someone is a threat to you. OUTPUT aggressive/violent response
if you have normal processing you will display a rational/ normal response. faulty processing results in abnormal behaviour
in addition, our brain is seen as a piece of hardware (the biology of the brain we are born with- wired up to learn language, store memories). all our experiences and learned responses are software which make us different to each other
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