cognitive approach

Question 1

What are the assumptions of the cognitive approch?

Answer 1

1.Psychology needs to study mental processes, because behaviour cant be studies just in simple-stimuli response.
2.The brain is build like a computer, meaning the stimuli is the inpt, and the response/behaviour is the outpt.
3.The mind uses theoretical models.

Question 2

what is the mental process in which we detect a stimuli in our environemnt?

Answer 2

Perception

Question 3

what is the mental process of selecting which stimuli we respond to?

Answer 3

Attention.

Question 4

What is the mental process by which we store informsation?

Answer 4

Memory.

Question 5

Is it treu that the mind has a limited capacity?

Answer 5

Yes.

Question 6

What are the two ways in which mental processing can occur? and explain both of them.

Answer 6

1. mental processes can occur in a sequence.
2. Or mental processes can occur in the same time, we say they are parallel.

Question 7

What is a schema?

Answer 7

Schemas are mental framewroks that we form from our own experience.

Question 8

What is assimiliation in schemas?

Answer 8

It means when a new experience, matches our schema, and is incorporated into our schema.

Question 9

What is accomodation in schemas?

Answer 9

When we change a schema, in order to match new information, we call this accomodation.