Cognitive approach

Question 1

Who is the founder of the cognitive approach?

Answer 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 2

What Is Gestalt Psychology?

Answer 2

A type of psychology that asserts that experiences which are perceived as a whole have specific properties that are different from the sum of their individual parts

Question 3

What is an assumption of the cognitive approach?

Answer 3

Cognitive functions are organised to create the conscious experience or ‘Gëstalt’

Question 4

What is the main focus of the cognitive approach?

Answer 4

How our minds take in and process information from the outside world

Question 5

What is the computer analogy?

Answer 5

It is the concept that the human mind takes information (input) codes that information(changes it) stores that information (storage) and uses that information (output)

Question 6

What are 3 bassic assumptions of the cognitive approach?

Answer 6

1. Like behaviourist Cognitive psychologists use experiments beliving that psychology should be treated as a science, using their results to make inferrences about mental processes.
2. That the human mind has processes that alter information from the envrionment, behaviourist believe its simple environment-response however cognitive psychologist believe mental processes in between stimulus - response affect what response will occur.
3. The computer anaolgy, they believe that we are information processers that take input, change data and store it and use that data to produce output.

Question 7

What are cognitions?

Answer 7

Mental processes and frameworks that alter and effect how information taken from the environment cause specific behaviours.

Question 8

What is an example of a cognition effecting a behaviour ?

Answer 8

If every partner you had cheated on you then you would create an ATTRIBUTION of your boyfriend not being in with being cheated on, this attribution is a cognition and may cause an emotion response leading to depressed behaviour.

Below is an example of a schema

1. Partner not in - information (input)
2. Associating it with stored information about previous times where the partner wasnt in and cheated - Cognition
3. This association causes a bad emotional response leading to a specific undesired behaviour (output)

Question 9

What is an attribution?

Answer 9

The association of some information with a previous experience, i.e if you kept getting cheated on, you may associate your partner not being in with being cheated on

Question 10

How does the cognitive approach explain human behaviour. (loop)

Answer 10

Event -> thought-> Emotion -> behaviour -> thought

Question 11

What is assumption 2 of cognitive approach?

Answer 11

Cognitions can be studied scientifically