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What are the main assumptions? |
1. Internal/mental processes should be studied scientifically 2. Investigates human behaviour neglected by behaviourists 3. Studies indirectly by making inferences |
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What is the cognitive approach based on? |
How mental processes affect behaviour |
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What are internal mental processes? |
Private operations of the mind, eg perception/attention |
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Explain the role of the schema |
The schema is personal beliefs and expectations, these can effect cognitive processes, they're based on experience and act as mental framework for interpretations |
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What happens to our schema as we get older? |
It becomes more detailed and sophisticated, babies are born with innate schemas which develop |
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What do schemas enable us to do? |
Process lots of information more quickly |
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Explain the role of computer models? |
The mind is compared to a computer, there are similarities in the way they process information, including a central processing, coding and use of stores |
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Which scans are used to analyse the brain? |
PET and fMRI |
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What is the theoretical model? |
Involves the information processing approach which suggests information flows through the cognitive system in stages |
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What are the stages in the processing approach? |
1. Input 2. Storage 3. Retrival |
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Outline cognitive neuroscience |
Enables the two fields of biology and cognitive psychology to come together by using brain scans to analyse brain structures during mental processes. The combination of cog neuroscience and computer modelling has improved brain mapping |
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Explain the supporting evaluation points of scientific credibility |
1. This approach uses lab experiments, high control, means they're rigorous and reliable 2. Cognitive neuroscience has helped biology as cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience have come together, meaning the study of the mind has made a more credible scientific basis |
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Explain the limiting evaluation points of scientific credibility |
1. Experimental studies of mental processes often use artificial stimuli that may not represent everyday experience, reduces external validity 2. The theory can only use results from its studies they observe so results can be too abstract and theoretical |
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Explain the evaluation point of computer analogy |
It has been criticised for ignoring the influence of human emotion and motivation on the cognitive system, these effect the ability to process information ☒ |
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Explain the evaluation point of application to real life |
Repeat the limitations of scientific credibility and add: The theory has been used to develop thinking therapies (CBT) ☑ |
