Cognitive Approach Flashcards
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Cognitive approach
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- internal mental processes can and should be studied
- private, not observed so make inferences - what going on inside - on behaviour
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Theoretical models
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- information processing approach
- info flows through cognitive system
- sequence: - input, storage, retrieval
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Computer models
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- mind compared to computer
- similarities in way info processed
- central processing unit - concept of coding and use of stores
- proved useful in development of artificial intelligence
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Schemas
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- cognitive framework, helps organise and interpret information in brain
- based on expectation - how to behave
- to take shortcuts- interpret huge amount of info
- older, more detailed schema
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Cognitive neuroscience
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- influence of brain structures on mental processes
- mapping brain cognitive functions
- Broca- damage to frontal lobe - permanently impaired speech production
- advances in brain techniques e.g PET Scans
- systematically observe and describe the neurological basis of mental processes.
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Strength cognitive approach
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- always employed highly controlled and rigorous methods of study in order to enable researchers to infer cognitive processes
- lab experiment to produce reliable data
- 2 fields coming together,biology psychology
- established credible scientific basis
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Strength cognitive approach
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- Additional research into schemas
- 2 groups, 1 on animals and 1 on faces
- looked at rat man
- pps group of animals , saw rat
- pps group of faces, saw man
- influence schema on internal mental processes
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Strength of cognitive approach
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- real life application
- contribute to artificial intelligence
- develop thinking machines- live in future
- useful approach explaining behaviour and revolutionising psychology
- strong approach
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Negative cognitive approach
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- guilty machine reductionism
- ignores human emotion - affects ability to process info
- use computer not fully effective
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Negative cognitive approach
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- not applicable to real life
-use artificial stimuli - not represent everyday memory experience
- not applicable to real life as thought
