... one has spearheaded the cognitive approach; rather than a group of people, such as Piaget and Vygotsky, Chomsky, Simon and Newell, each contributed to one or more aspects of cognition. The 'Cognitive revolution'- as it is sometimes called gathered speed after the Second World War and came the age in the 1960's. It brought together a number of fields, all of which were producing more and more information on how the mental process works: fields, such as neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and anthropology and, of course, computer science. If cognition is all about mental processing involved acquiring knowledge, and if we think before we behave, then behaviourism, which involves just studying behaviour, which is incomplete. Assumption and basic principles * The cognitive approach is based on information processing theory (computer analogy). * The cognitive approach studies the process of storing and retrieving information. * The cognitive approach relies heavily on the scientific method. * The cognitive approach argues ...

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