cognitive approach

cognitive approach

1. 1st Assumption - in order to understand behaviour we need to investigate what happens between stimulus and response

   • cognitive mediators. Memory Attention and Thinking
   • thoughts.
     • unobservable.
     • IICC treatment - depression, phobias
       • unsuitable for sch' as it is a talking therapy
     • depression - negative faulty thinking. Beck's cognitive triad, self world future.
   • Schema - explain gender. pocket of knowledge.
     • gender develops with increasing experience with environment and maturation of the brain (thinking)
   • behaviourism criticises studying unobservable processes

2. 2nd Assumption - humans can be thought as informational processors and therefore can be compared to computers.

   • input -- processing and storage -- output
     • encode -- processing and storage -- output
   • explains human memory
     • simplifies behaviour
     • sensory t m -- short t m -- long t m
       • attention ->
       • rehearsal ->
       • retrieval
         • output
     • revision application
   • people can forget, computers can't
   • humans can't simply download info
   • both humans and computers have a capacity.
   • humans are more complex than computers.

3. lab conditions. Murdock.

   • LEV

4. replicable

5. nomothetic

6. ideographic

   • clive wearing (amnesia sufferer)
   • Piaget observed his owned children

7. interactionalist

8. reductionist

9. soft determinism