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Flashcards by Blake Dunlop, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Blake Dunlop
almost 10 years ago
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| COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR BY FOCUSSING ON OUR... | INTERNAL MENTAL PROCESSES! |
| WHAT ARE INTERNAL MENTAL PROCESSES? | THINGS WE DO IN OUR HEAD! THIS INCLUDES MEMORY, THINKING, REASONING, PROBLEM SOLVING AND LANGUAGE. |
| WHAT IS THE COMPUTER ANALOGY? | SIMPLY PUT: INPUT-> PROCESS-> OUTPUT (STIMULI FROM THE ENVIRONMENT-> THINKING, MAKING SENSE OF THE INFO-> BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES) |
| STRENGTH OF THE COGNITIVE APPROACH? | HELPS US UNDERSTAND HOW OUR MIND PROCESSES INFORMATION TO PRODUCE AN OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOUR, SUCH AS DEVELOPING COMMUNICATION SKILLS |
| WEAKNESS OF THE COGNITIVE APPROACH? | RELIES ON THE USE OF OBJECTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS TO CONDUCT RESEARCH, LOWERING ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY. |
| ANOTHER WEAKNESS OF THE COGNITIVE APPROACH? | OVERSIMPLIFIES COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOUR TO AN INPUT-PROCESS-OUTPUT MODEL, WHICH IS REDUCTIONIST AND IGNORES OTHER INFLUENTIAL FACTORS. |
| THEME OF MEMORY: | CLASSIC: LOFTUS AND PALMER 1974 EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY CONTEMPORARY: GRANT ET AL 1998 CONTEXT DEPENDANT MEMORY |
| THEME OF ATTENTION: | CLASSIC: MORAY 1959 DICHOTIC LISTENING CONTEMPORARY: SIMON AND CHABRIS 1999 INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS |
| DEFINE MEMORY | THE FACULTY BY WHICH THE MIND STORES AND REMEMBERS INFORMATION |
| DEFINE ATTENTION | NOTICE TAKEN OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING THE ACT OF DEALING WITH OR TAKING SPECIAL CARE OF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE |
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