Mental Structures and Their Role in Shaping Behavior
Cognitivists also emphasize the importance of mental structures in shaping behavior.
- These structures include schemas, which are mental frameworks that organize and interpret information, and scripts, which are mental representations of typical sequences of events.
- These structures help people make sense of their experiences and guide their behavior in familiar situations.
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The cognitivist perspective is a psychological approach that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception, thought, and decision-making. This perspective views the mind as a complex system that processes information, and it seeks to understand how people acquire, process, and use knowledge.
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