Cognitive Approach
It is the set of mental abilities and processes related to the acquisition of knowledge
What is Cognition?
Participants were not informed about the complete purpose for which they had to monitor the telephone message
What is Deception?
The gender of the participants (in a sub experiment)
The type of participant
Independent Variables
Food preference usually isn’t decided through questionnaires
Human behavior can be explained through mental processes
What is the Cognitive approach to behavior?
Occurs when mental focus is on multiple tasks or ideas at once. Also known as multitasking, individuals do this all the time (2 Words)
Divided Attention
to investigate if adults with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome would be impaired on a theory of mind test called The Eyes Task
Baron-Cohen's Aim
Unequal gender representation this is a weakness on this study
What is Andrade's Sample?
the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses
What is perception
to show that doodling while performing a boring task improves the concentration with which the task is performed.
What is Andrade's AIM
females will perform significantly better on the TOM test compared to males
The R-ET is easy to administer and replicable
Is the term given to the structures and processes involved in the storage and subsequent retrieval of information.
What is memory?
"Doodling performed with the performance of a boring activity will lead to NO DIFFERENCE in the attention given to the boring activity."
Null Hypothesis to the Andrade's CS
Test Baron-Cohen had previously carried out during research on autistic children
The Sally-Anne test
A student can doodle while passively reading through study material or listening to an audiotape of the same to prevent himself from daydreaming;
What is an Application on Andrade's CS
According to our textbook these are case studies that are part of the cognitive approach - Full name of the Case Studies and Researchers
What Does Doodling do? - Andrade
The ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test Revised Version - Baron - Cohen
Asparagus, a Love Story. Laney, C.,
It is the Sample Size and Demographics of Andrade's CS
The performance on an advanced test of theory of mind
What is Baron - Cohen DV?
Looking at B&W photos of still eyes is very different
than one would encounter in social settings
What is a weakness on Baron-Cohen CS