evaluation of cognitive psychology?

Answer 1

Yes please.

Answer 2

Cognitive Behavoural Therapy?

Answer 3

I hear what you are saying, but I'm not really sure that I have understood you correctly. So firstly, if you'll allow me to clarify what I think you are saying, do you not think that it would be wise to actually use some of your cognitive powers to understand what actually constitutes 'a question'.

Having done so, perhaps it would then be practical to give some consideration as to why you actually want to ask a question?

And then, if you think about it, perhaps it would be a good idea to state briefly why you are asking others to provide possible answers to the question. By doing this, it will make it more possible for others to cogitate on your question, and perhaps provide you with answers that will give you the information you are looking for!

Would that be a more practicable way to proceed d'you think?

Fine, then lets start again. What is your question?

Answer 4

in drug treatment therapy in the UK it's becoming the major force, if it hasn't already got there, because of its 'evidence-based' approach...unfortunately, that evidence suffers from the usual problems in psychology - ill conceived initial questions, misinterpretation of data, spurious statistical 'analyses' that seem to add weight to findings by pretending to be 'scientific', confusions of constant conjunctions with causality etc.

it's not ALL bad - NLP has alot to offer, for instance, and is effective as is shown by that guy on channel 4 i can't remember the name of (!) who does strange things to people's minds, and cog' behavioural therapy seems to work for some people at least in the short term.
for me, as a therapist, there is sometimes a problem working with people who have had cog' behavioural therapy that has cured symptoms without addressing root causes - the root causes remain and later cause other, different problems which are then more difficult to deal with effectively - but i'd rather deal with that than the problems caused by psychoanalasys!

most therapies are cognitive in part and some cool ideas have come out of cog' psych' but the qualitative research seems less wild in its truth-claims than the quantitative sort...ask alot of psychologists what epistemology is and they'll look at you blankly. this seems strange in an area where the truth is kinda important!

i think the most widely applicable criticism of cognitive psychology concerns claims made about causality - experiment a shows b by way of c stuff - because of the complexity ofr the subject matter(us!) and the relatively simplistic cognitions of the cognitivists themselves! it is VERY hard to make any claims about what any experiment in psychology shows because of how many things might have been missed in the original hypothesis...and like any other site of human thought, there are many pressures to think 'within the paradigm'...Eysenck found that horoscopes were more accurate than they should have been through pure chance, for example, and was roundly pilloried by the 'psychology community' for publishing, many of whom had not even read, let alone understood his research (it CAN'T be true, right?BURN the witch!!).

bit of a broad q tho and i fink i'v e ranted on enough
=)

Answer 5

i'm assuming you advise the cognitive attitude in terms of psychology and not cognitive therapy, if i'm incorrect permit me understand.the main considerable grievance of the Cognitive attitude grew to become into that it grew to become into no longer scientific. Behaviorists which includes B.F. Skinner criticized the cognitive technique with the aid of fact of ways subjective it grew to become into. The procedures of cognitive researchers and introspectionists bring about outcomes that should no longer be examined, or replicated, which grew to become into many times what the behaviorists had a topic with. It wasnt till psychophysics that a bridge between the cognitive attitude and the behavioral attitude grew to become into made.

Answer 6

It's still kicking. Cognitive psychology is developing in many ways, both in research and in therapy. It has been found to be fairly effective and encourages one to try to measure progress. It has been with us for about 50 years or more. I believe Tolman was an early researcher.

Answer 7

If you actually HAVE a question, you need to let us know what it is.

If not, please stop wasting everyone's time.

What about evaluation of cognitive psychology? Are you asking us to evaluate that field?

A question is a complete sentence, not a phrase.