Explanation
Explain one of the principles of cognitive psychology and how it can be demonstrated…
Define cognition - Refers to a process that is based on one's mental representations of the world, such as images, words and concepts. People likewise have different experiences and therefore each individual will have different mental representations of the world. For example: what boys can do, girls cannot do this cognition will influence the way they act .
State principle 1- Cognitive psychologists believe that mental processes and stored representations of the world determine behaviour and are central to human experience.
Describe the principle
Psychologists see the mind as a complex machine – where they believe that it is useful to model mental processes using an information-processing approach whereby:
Information is examined from the outside world is received and encoded storage and representation of this information to ourselves ways in which this information is manipulated and used by the individual and how we output information back into the world to be received by others. Many cognitive psychologists have used the computer analogy, where they have conceived the human mind as being similar to a computer, in that both can be seen as information processors, to attempt to understand how the brain manages these mental processes (information processing). The brain in this instance is seen as the hardware and the mind, thoughts and mental representations/images as the software.
Explain Computer Analogy
They have attempted to understand what occurs between input and output.
They have addressed how the mind selects and codes incoming information and represents knowledge to itself, while processing it and combining it with previously stored information (organisation), and then how inferences are made based upon this information and therefore leads to our cognitions affecting behaviour.
(OR) Both people and computers store information and retrieve it when
Define cognition - Refers to a process that is based on one's mental representations of the world, such as images, words and concepts. People likewise have different experiences and therefore each individual will have different mental representations of the world. For example: what boys can do, girls cannot do this cognition will influence the way they act .
State principle 1- Cognitive psychologists believe that mental processes and stored representations of the world determine behaviour and are central to human experience.
Describe the principle
Psychologists see the mind as a complex machine – where they believe that it is useful to model mental processes using an information-processing approach whereby:
Information is examined from the outside world is received and encoded storage and representation of this information to ourselves ways in which this information is manipulated and used by the individual and how we output information back into the world to be received by others. Many cognitive psychologists have used the computer analogy, where they have conceived the human mind as being similar to a computer, in that both can be seen as information processors, to attempt to understand how the brain manages these mental processes (information processing). The brain in this instance is seen as the hardware and the mind, thoughts and mental representations/images as the software.
Explain Computer Analogy
They have attempted to understand what occurs between input and output.
They have addressed how the mind selects and codes incoming information and represents knowledge to itself, while processing it and combining it with previously stored information (organisation), and then how inferences are made based upon this information and therefore leads to our cognitions affecting behaviour.
(OR) Both people and computers store information and retrieve it when