cognitive approach

1st Assumption - in order to understand behaviour we need to investigate what happens between stimulus and response
1. cognitive mediators. Memory Attention and Thinking
2. thoughts.
  1. unobservable.
  2. IICC treatment - depression, phobias
    1. unsuitable for sch' as it is a talking therapy
  3. depression - negative faulty thinking. Beck's cognitive triad, self world future.
3. Schema - explain gender. pocket of knowledge.
  1. gender develops with increasing experience with environment and maturation of the brain (thinking)
4. behaviourism criticises studying unobservable processes
2nd Assumption - humans can be thought as informational processors and therefore can be compared to computers.
1. input -- processing and storage -- output
  1. encode -- processing and storage -- output
2. explains human memory
  1. simplifies behaviour
  2. sensory t m -- short t m -- long t m
    1. attention ->
    2. rehearsal ->
    3. retrieval
      1. output
  3. revision application
3. people can forget, computers can't
4. humans can't simply download info
5. both humans and computers have a capacity.
6. humans are more complex than computers.
lab conditions. Murdock.
1. LEV
replicable
nomothetic
ideographic
1. clive wearing (amnesia sufferer)
2. Piaget observed his owned children
interactionalist
reductionist
soft determinism

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