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Cognitive Approach - Coggle Diagram
Cognitive Approach
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- focuses on how people: perceive, store, manipulate & interpret info
- look at internal mental processes to understand behaviour
- Internal = perception, attention & thinking
→ cannot be observed - "private" → ∴ studied indirectly by *inferences* about what is going on in minds based on behaviour
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- EVENT SCHEMAS - contain info for what
happens in situation - "script"
- ROLE SCHEMAS - ideas of behaviour expected from someone in certain role
- SELF-SCHEMAS - about ourselves (based on personality, characteristics, beliefs) - affect how we act
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shortcuts in thinking when interpreting large amounts of info
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prevent us from becoming overwhelmed
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process large amounts of info quickly
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make predictions about things based on experiences
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lead to negative stereotypes
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inaccurate assumptions being made
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negative SS can affect mental health
- 'biased recall - (we see what we expect to see)`
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- explain mental processes based on current evidence
- simplified, pictorial representations of particular mental processes
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- focus on how info entered through senses is coded
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- last
20 years - advances in brain imaging techniques - can observe & describe neurological basis of mental processes
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- rapidly becoming dominant paradigm in modern psychology