Cognitive Approach

Question 1

Assumptions about cognitive approach

Answer 1

-In direct contrast to behaviourist approach
-Internally mental processes should be studied scientifically
-Focuses on behaviours that were ignored by behaviourists
Memory, perception and thinking
-These behaviours are private
Observed indirectly
-They make inferences about what people are thinking in their mind which affects behaviour

Question 2

Role of schema

Answer 2

Mental frameworks that affect a persons beloveds or behaviour’s
Packages of information developed through experience
For example: Schema for a chair, it has legs and u sit on it

Question 3

Theoretical and computer models

Answer 3

Use theoretical and computer models to help them understand internal mental processes

Question 4

Important theoretical model

Answer 4

Information processing approach

Question 5

What is the information process approach

Answer 5

Suggests that information Flows through the cognitive system in a sequence of stages, these include, input, storage and retieval as in the multi store model. Based on the way that computes function

Question 6

Cognitive neuroscience

Answer 6

The scientific study of the influence of brain structures on mental processes

Question 7

What does damage to frontal lobe damage

Answer 7

Impair speech production

Question 8

Last 25 years, what brain imaging techniques have advanced

Answer 8

fMRI and PET, describe the neurological basis of mental processes.

Question 9

What did PET and fMRIs allow to be studied

Answer 9

Research into episodic and semantic memory, able to show different types of LTM, may be located on opposite sides of the prefrontal cortex