AQA A-LEVEL: Approaches - The Cognitive Approach
THE COGNITIVE APPROACH ASSUMPTION - All behaviour is driven by thought processes which are known as "cognitive primacy" . Focuses on how our mind deals with info and our abilities to use that info. However, all these processes are internal and cannot be observed, researchers can only make inferences about cognitive behaviour. INFORMATION PROCESSING APPROACH We learn and process info in a Linear Systematic way INPUT ~~> PROCESS ~~> OUTPUT Seen is the multi-store model COMPUTER ANALOGY Sees the human mind as similar to a computer HARDWARE - Skull SOFTWARE - Like cognitive processes such as memory, software can differ between people but hardware is the same Both have a CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT and uses the concept of coding and we have different stores to hold info ROLE OF SCHEMA A mental/cognitive structure which contains knowledge about an object, person, activity or role based on experience. These beliefs/expectations help us make sen...