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APPROACHES IN PSYCHOLOGY THE COGNITIVE APPROACH The cognitive approach was developed as a response to the behaviourist approach’s failure to acknowledge mental processes. The Cognitive approach argues that internal mental processes (memory, perception) can be studied scientifically. These processes are private and so cannot be observedthey have to be studied indirectly by making inferences about what’s going inside someone’s mind.

THEORETICAL AND COMPUTER MODELS: One model in the cognitive approach is the information processing approach, this suggests that information flows through cognitive systems in a sequence of stages (input, storage and retrieval), just like in the multi-store model of memory. The cognitive approach also uses computer models- these models use the concepts of a central processing unit (the brain), coding (to turn information into a suitable format) and stores (to hold information). Furthermore, development of technology has allowed psychologists to see how information is coded....