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Flashcards by Georgia Leech, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Georgia Leech
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The cognitive approach believes that... | the mind dictates much of human behaviour |
| It's methodology is concerned with... | investigating the mind |
| Why does the cognitive approach use lab experiments? | Because they believe that psychology is a science so should be researched through the most scientific methods. |
| The cognitive approach believes that the mind can be influenced by... | observing human behaviour/asking leading questions. |
| An example of this is Loftus and Palmer who... | Investigated the effects of leading questions on memory through lab experiments. |
| From these experiments Loftus and Palmer were able to conclude that... | leading questions affect the accuracy of eye witness testimonies. |
| This is highly credible because Loftus and Palmer had high... | internal validity, as it was conducted in a lab setting. |
| Why do lab experiments have high internal validity? | As all extraneous variables are controlled for. |
| How do you mention police interviews in this essay? | Such credibility has meant that research has been able to impact society (e.g. has changed the way that police question witnesses). This does not just strengthen L+P, but of lab experiments used by the cognitive approach as a whole. |
| What is a weakness of using lab experiments? | They lack ecological validity, as the environment in which they take part is controlled and not like real life. |
| How can this be applied to Loftus and Palmer? | The inaccuracies found in Loftus' research may simply be due to the fact that the research was conducted in a lab. |
| Yuille and Cutshall can be used as an example of this. What did they find? | That eye witness testimony to a real life event were accurate four months after the event, regardless of two misleading questions. |
| What is the other method used by the cognitive approach? | Case Studies. |
| What are the key characteristics of a case study? | Involve an in-depth study of one person, observing their behaviour and interviewing them over a long period of time. |
| For example the case study of .... took place over .... | HM, over a 50 year period. |
| A strength of this method is... | that valuable information can be obtained that cannot be obtained through any other method. |
| What did HM support the idea of? | The Multi-store model of memory, and the idea that short-term memory and long-term memory are located separately. |
| A weakness of case studies is... | that findings lack generalisability, as the person used in the case study may be unique. |
| What are some other weaknesses of case studies? | Very time consuming and expensive to conduct the research, which limits the amount of research conducted. |
| What do these weaknesses do to the research overall? | The weaken the validity of the research. |
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