Cognitive PEEL

Question 1

1P (good)

Answer 1

Can be used to treat psychological disorders

Question 1

1E - 1

Answer 1

Used to explain disorders like depression through faulty thinking processes

Question 2

1E-2

Answer 2

Led to development of successful treatments for depression like CBT

Question 3

1L

Answer 3

Helped to improve lives of millions of ppl + provides support for the ideas in C approach

Question 4

2P (good)

Answer 4

Use of scientific methods

Question 5

2E - 1

Answer 5

Uses lab experiments that are highly controlled to produce reliable + objective data

Question 6

2E - 2

Answer 6

+ also emergence of cognitive neuroscience has enabled the 2 fields of biology + cognitive psych to combine

Question 7

2L

Answer 7

psych has established a credible scientific basis through the use of scientific methodology

Question 8

3P (bad)

Answer 8

Compares mind to a human computer

Question 9

3E - 1

Answer 9

machine reductionism ignores the influence of human emotion + motivation on the cognitive system + how this affects us processing info

Question 10

3E - 2

Answer 10

e.g. research has found that human memory may be affects by emotional factors - influence of anxiety on EWT

Question 11

3L

Answer 11

= altho similarities exist between the mind + a computer, this analogy ignores key differences + oversimplifies the mind

Question 12

4P (bad)

Answer 12

Lacks ecological validity

Question 13

4E - 1

Answer 13

C psychologists are only able to infer mental processes from behaviour they observe in the research

Question 14

4E - 2

Answer 14

so, C psych ocassionally suffers from being too abstract and theoretical in nature

Question 15

4L

Answer 15

= research on c processes may lack external validity