Outline one assumption of the cognitive approach in psychology.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (Feb/Mar 2024). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [2] Information is processed through the same route in all humans: input – process – output, in a similar way to how information is processed by a computer.
2. [1] People have individual differences in their cognitive processing such as with attention, language, thinking and memory (1 named).
3. [2] Children correctly identified 99% of the cartoon faces (1 mark result). This could follow the principles of input (see cartoon), process (memory of cartoon) and output (recall cartoon) (1 mark supported link).
4. [2] Adults correctly identified 66% of human faces (1 mark result). This shows that people do have individual differences in memory recall (1 mark supported link).
5. [2] This is when a person believes they are making an accurate choice, but it is not (1 mark: definition). In the Pozzulo study this would be the children choosing a person in a line-up even though the culprit is not in the line-up (1 mark: example).