Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cognitive
Approach
Overview
- The study of internal mental processes
- Cognitive primacy
- Only uses people and scientific experimentation
- Cannot be
directly
observed-
inferences
made
- Theoretical and computer
models to explain mental
processes
- The information processing approach
- We approach info in linear, systematic way
- Eg. Stimulus--> STM---> LTM---> Retrieval etc
- The computer analogy
- Sees human minds similiar to computers
- "Central processing unit" and use of "coding"
- The role of schema
- Mental/cognitive structure
which contains knowledge
about an object/person/activity
- Developed by Jean Piaget
- Bartlett (1932)- big role in how
memories encoded. Used to
simplify the world, however
creates stereotypes
- The emergence of cognitive neuroscience
- Searches for
neuroanatomical,
chemical and/or
mechanisms responsible
for cognitive processes
- Looks for
physical basis
of cognitive
processes