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What does the cognitive approach argue??

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Mental processes should be studied

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Outline the role of inference in the study of mental processes

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Mental processes are private and cannot be observed, cognitive psychologists study them indirectly by making inferences about what is going on inside peoples heads based on their behaviour

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What does the information processing approach suggest?

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Information flows through a sequence of stages as in the multi-store model

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What are computer models?

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Programs that can be run on a computer to imitate the human mind

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Outline the use of computer models when describing/explaining mental processes

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By running this, psychologists contest whether their ideas about information-processing are correct

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What is a schema?

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Packages of information developed through experience - act as mental framework for interpretation of incoming information received by cognitive system, as we age they become more detailed and sophisticated

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What is cognitive neuroscience?

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The scientific study of the influence of the brain structures on mental processes

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What have scientists recently been able to do in regard to neuroscience?

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Advances in brain scanning technology in the past 20 years has helped to describe the neurological basis of mental processing.

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What else have scanning techniques proved useful in?

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Proved useful in establishing the neurological basis of some disorders e.g. OCD