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Component 2: The Cognitive Approach
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- 1COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR BY FOCUSSING ON OUR...INTERNAL MENTAL PROCESSES!
- 2WHAT ARE INTERNAL MENTAL PROCESSES?THINGS WE DO IN OUR HEAD!
THIS INCLUDES MEMORY, THINKING, REASONING, PROBLEM SOLVING AND LANGUAGE. - 3WHAT IS THE COMPUTER ANALOGY?SIMPLY PUT:
INPUT-> PROCESS-> OUTPUT
(STIMULI FROM THE ENVIRONMENT-> THINKING, MAKING SENSE OF THE INFO-> BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES) - 4STRENGTH OF THE COGNITIVE APPROACH?HELPS US UNDERSTAND HOW OUR MIND PROCESSES INFORMATION TO PRODUCE AN OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOUR, SUCH AS DEVELOPING COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- 5WEAKNESS OF THE COGNITIVE APPROACH?RELIES ON THE USE OF OBJECTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS TO CONDUCT RESEARCH, LOWERING ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY.
- 6ANOTHER WEAKNESS OF THE COGNITIVE APPROACH?OVERSIMPLIFIES COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOUR TO AN INPUT-PROCESS-OUTPUT MODEL, WHICH IS REDUCTIONIST AND IGNORES OTHER INFLUENTIAL FACTORS.
- 7THEME OF MEMORY:CLASSIC: LOFTUS AND PALMER 1974
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY
CONTEMPORARY: GRANT ET AL 1998
CONTEXT DEPENDANT MEMORY - 8THEME OF ATTENTION:CLASSIC: MORAY 1959
DICHOTIC LISTENING
CONTEMPORARY: SIMON AND CHABRIS 1999
INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS - 9DEFINE MEMORYTHE FACULTY BY WHICH THE MIND STORES AND REMEMBERS INFORMATION
- 10DEFINE ATTENTIONNOTICE TAKEN OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING
THE ACT OF DEALING WITH OR TAKING SPECIAL CARE OF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE
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