The Cognitive Approach

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  1. 1. A strength of the cognitive approach is that it has to use mostly _________ participants.
  2. 5. A mental framework that incorporates our ideas about a person or a situation.
  3. 6. Seeing people as computers ignores their freewill. This is a _________ view of human behaviour.
  4. 10. An assumption of this approach is that the mind works like a __________.
  5. 13. Cognitive psychologists believe that thought processes can, and should be, studied __________.
  6. 14. One way to study internal mental processes is through the use of theoretical _________.
  7. 15. The person responds through their behaviour. This is the third stage of information processing.
  8. 16. Comparing humans to computers is considered to be _________. Humans have complex emotions that computers do not.
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  1. 2. The scientific study of the influence of brain structures on mental processes.
  2. 3. Information is gathered from the environment via the senses and is encoded by the individual. This is the first stage of the information processing approach.
  3. 4. A brain imaging technique.
  4. 7. The cognitive approach is guilty of this type of reductionism.
  5. 8. The information, once encoded, is processed individual's mind. This is the second stage of information processing.
  6. 9. This approach is based on strong __________ evidence.
  7. 11. Cognitive psychologists study non-empirical thought processes by observing behaviour and making __________ (assumptions about mental processes).
  8. 12. CBT is a practical application of the cognitive approach. It is a successful treatment.