COGNITIVE

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COGNITIVE APPROACH MIND not BRAIN anymore COGNITIVE APPROACH Humans are information processors Disagreed with earlier psychological approaches like behaviourism that assumed only observable behaviours should be studied. “How do we study mental processes which aren’t directly observable?” PRINCIPLE 1 PRINCIPLE 2 PRINCIPLE 3 PRINCIPLE 4 Mental processes can be studied scientifically Mental representations guide behaviour Cognitive processes do not function in isolation. Biases in cognitive processes can be systematic and predictable PRINCIPLES OF THE COGNITIVE APPROACH From the history of the development of cognitive psychology we can formulate the basic principles that define the cognitive approach. Memory is a cognitive process used to encode, store and retrieve information. It cannot be directly observed, so in order to study it scientifically we need to design and test memory models. What is Memory ENCODING STORAGE RETRIEVAL CAPACITY DURATION 01 02 03 04 05 How memories are encoded, which means how they are registered as memories, such as by sound or by smell. How memories are stored, which means how they remain as memories after they have been registere...