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Introduction to Psychology The cognitive and Psychoanalytic perspectives There are a number of approaches in psychology and this essay will compare and contrast two of the major perspectives. These will be the cognitive and psychoanalytic perspectives; it will also give an example of how psychology can be applied in a health care setting. The cognitive perspective is easy to understand if one was to compare the human mind with a computer, the mind could be seen as an information processor and its job is to select and code information as well as storing and retrieving it when needed. Jean Piaget studied the human mind and how it is capable of storing information in the form of "schemes" these are organised patterns of thought and actions used to represent the world. He also believed the mind went through four stages during childhood. The first stage is the sensorimotor stage, and Piaget designated the first two...

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