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Cognitive approach - Coggle Diagram
Cognitive approach
Schema
Babies are born with schema like sucking and grasping. As we get older, our scheme develops and becomes more complicated and sophisticated
Helps us to process information quickly, however they can bring distortions to our perception of things
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Mental framework , which we form from our experiences.
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Theoretical Model
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Cognitive psychologists test theoretical models, by measuring behaviour in order to make inferences about mental processes
- For example, the multi-store model (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968) is a theoretical model of memory
- Likewise, the working memory model (Baddeley and Hitch, 1974) is a theoretical model of short-term memory.
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Mental Processes
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- A big role in how we behave due to it affecting behaviour
- Mind has a limited capacity
- Mental processes usally occur in sequences but sometimes in parralel
Assumptions
1) Must study mental processes such as memory, attention and perception
2) The mind works like a computer
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- Limitation
- Relies on the inference of mental processes, rather than direct observation of behaviour, it can occasionally suffer from being too abstract and theoretical in nature
- Research studies of mental processes, use artificial stimulus such as word lists and therefore may not represent everyday experiences
- Strength
- Objective and scientific methods
- Highly controlled and vigorous methods so could infer cognitive process is at work
- Experiments in the lab meaning it is highly reliable and objective data
- Due to the emergence of cognitive neuroscience, Bringing together biology and the cognitive approach, enhancing the basis of the study
- Credible scientific basis