DP Psychology Questionbank

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At the second level of analysis, the products of our biological machinery can be seen in our cognitive system, which includes our cognitions, emotions and behaviours.

Around the 1950s psychologists began systematically to explore cognition to further understanding of human behaviour. This shift in focus from studying observable behaviour to studying mental processes, such as memory and perception, is called “the cognitive revolution”. Cognitive psychologists suggested that humans form internal mental representations that guide behaviour, and they developed a range of research methods to study these. In recent years, researchers within social and cultural psychology have used findings from cognitive psychologists to understand how mental processes may be influenced by social and cultural factors.

Cognitive psychology represents a vast array of research areas including cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. Topics such as memory, perception, artificial intelligence, amnesia and social cognition are studied. Cognitive psychologists use traditional research methods (for example, experiments and verbal protocols) but there is an increasing focus on the use of modern technology.

Cognitive psychologists collaborate increasingly with neuroscientists, social psychologists and cultural psychologists in order to explore the complexity of human cognition. This approach is illustrated in the field of cultural and social cognitive neuroscience, indicating the complementary nature of social, cognitive and biological levels of analysis. Research that integrates these three levels can develop more meaningful theories to explain the mechanisms underlying complex behaviour and the mind.

Directly related questions

• 16N.Paper 1.BP.TZ0.2:

  Describe how one biological factor may affect one cognitive process, with reference to one research study.

• 16N.Paper 1.BP.TZ0.5:

  Evaluate one theory of how emotion may affect one cognitive process.

• 17M.Paper 1.BP.TZ2.5:

  Discuss the use of technology in investigating one cognitive process.

• 17M.Paper 1.BP.TZ1.5:

  Discuss how social and/or cultural factors affect one cognitive process.

• 17M.Paper 1.BP.TZ2.2:

  Describe one study investigating the reliability of one cognitive process.

• 17M.Paper 1.BP.TZ1.2:

  Describe one ethical consideration related to one research study at the cognitive level of analysis.

• 17N.Paper 1.BP.TZ0.02:

  Explain how one principle that defines the cognitive level of analysis may be demonstrated in one example of research (theory or study).

• 17N.Paper 1.BP.TZ0.05:

  Evaluate schema theory.

• 18M.Paper 1.BP.TZ1.2:

  Cognitive level of analysis

  With reference to one study, describe how one particular research method is used at the cognitive level of analysis.

• 18M.Paper 1.BP.TZ1.5:

  Discuss the reliability of one cognitive process.

• 18M.Paper 1.BP.TZ2.2:

  Cognitive level of analysis

  Describe how one social or cultural factor affects one cognitive process.

• 18M.Paper 1.BP.TZ2.5: Discuss one theory of how emotion may affect one cognitive process.
• 21N.Paper 1.BP.TZ0.2:

  Describe schema theory, with reference to one relevant study.

• 18N.Paper 1.BP.TZ0.5:

  Discuss one or more ethical considerations related to one or more research studies at the cognitive level of analysis.

• 18N.Paper 1.BP.TZ0.2:

  With reference to one study, describe how one biological factor may affect one cognitive process.

• 22M.Paper 1.HL.TZ1.5:

  Evaluate one method used to study the interaction between technology and cognitive processes.