The Cognitive Approach

Yesterday we spent some time introducing key debates in Psychology. It would be helpful for you to do some reading about these here:
Nature Nurture;
Reductionism;
Science.

Our third approach is the Cognitive - this is probably the hardest to pin down to a simple explanation. It focuses on the mind, but not the subconscious drives and memories of the Psychodynamic approach. Instead it treats the brain as a computer, and studies how it processes and stores information. Like the behavioural approach it deals with stimuli and responses to them, but suggests that we need to study the mental processes (like thinking) that take place between these.
Here is the presentation. and some useful reading, and some more.

We will have a test on these approaches, including the biological approach which we will look at on Friday, next Wednesday 28th September.