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Cognitive Approach - Coggle Diagram
Cognitive Approach
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Brain injuries are mapped and their activity patterns are compared to those with no injuries.
This comparison is used to make inferences about normal cognitive function.
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Models
Computer
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For example:
- both have a CPU (the brain)
- both have a coding concept (understanding and converting information)
- both have stores to hold information
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Evaluation
Strengths
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Cognitive neuroscience allowed biology and cognitive psychology to come together.
Give study of the mind scientific credibility.
Cognitive approach has real life application.
It has led to AI and robots being created and developed, which could alter our future lives.
Less deterministic than behaviourism.
It is soft determinism, which means that we can only operate within the limits of what we know, but we are free to think before responding to a stimulus.
Weaknesses
Mental processes can only be inferred.
This means that it can be referred to as too abstract or only theoretical in real life.
Studies into mental processes use artificial stimuli.
This means actual memory may not be reflected, lowering the external validity of these studies.
Machine reductionism (comparing brain to a computer) ignores the influence of human emotion and motivation on how we process information.
