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What does the computer analogy assumption say?

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Behaviour can be explained by comparing the human mind to a computer

2
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What is this assumption an extension of?

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The internal mental processes assumption

3
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What process occurs in humans and a computer?

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Input - process - output

4
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In humans what is input?

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Sensory information

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In humans what is processing?

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Thinking

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In humans what is output?

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Behaviour

7
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In a normal behaviour example what would the input of someone asking you to go to the cinema be?

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Hearing “would you like to go?”

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In a normal behaviour example what would the processing be of someone asking you to go to the cinema?

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Where When Who with What time Cost To see what

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In a normal behaviour example what would the output be of someone asking you to go to the cinema?

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Deciding to go or not

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Rational processing/thinking =

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Rational behaviour

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Faulty processing/ irrational thinking =

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Irrational behaviour

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In a irrational behaviour example what would the input be of a break up?

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Someone breaks up with you

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In a irrational behaviour example what would the processing of someone breaking up with you be?

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I hate them I want to kill them I am worthless

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In a irrational behaviour example what would the output of someone breaking up with you be?

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Irrational disturbed behaviour e.g. Stalking

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What did Atkinson and Shiffrin come up with

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  • multistore model of memory
  • Information is INPUT into the brain as the senses
  • Moves to the SHORT TERM MEMORY store and then to the LONG TERM MEMORY store
  • It is OUTPUT when required
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What was crucial in the development of the computer analogy

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The invention of the computer in the 1960s was crucial in the development of cognitive psychology, as psychologists now had a metaphor for the mind.

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