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Cognitive Approach - Coggle Diagram
Cognitive Approach
Cognitive Bias
A cognitive bias is when we process a lot of information that the brain makes shortcuts called Cognitive Heuristics
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Confirmation Bias: When you pay attention to what you agree with but ignore information that doesn't promote your existing view
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Priming
Cognitive Priming: When one is exposed, the stimulus will influence how you will respond
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Negative Priming: Exposure to the prime, slows your response
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Definitions
Confabulation: Fill in gaps from your recall from multiple memories to make one which is not specifically true
Shortening: Your memory for an event becomes shorter than the actual event due to left out parts of information
Memory
Acoustic: Information that is stored in the form of sounds
Semantic: Information stored in the form of the meaning of the experience
Reconstructive: Memory is not an exact image of what happened
Rationalisation: When something does not make sense, you work on it till it does, changing the memory to fit your schema
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Data: Information that's gathered
Capacity: Length of time information can be held in a memory store
Duration: Information is stored in the memory stores, process of converting
Coding: Amount of information that can be stored
Assumptions:
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The mind takes in data from your senses, processes the information and stores it as a memory which affects how you behave towards it