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Describe & discuss two Key Assumptions of the Cognitive Approach. The two key assumptions that I am going to describe and discuss are key assumptions one, the information processing approach, and assumption two, the brain functions like a computer. Key assumptions one and two is about how we process information in our minds, and the various ways that we do it. Key assumption one assumption is based around one main idea which is that there is an input, process and an output. This idea was then developed a bit more by the Broadbent Filter Model, this was the theory that some information received by our senses is given more attention than some other information; therefore some information is gained and lost. Broadbent believed that that in certain situations a bottleneck situation would occur, an example he used was a cocktail party. This example is used to demonstrate his theory of selective...

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