Psychology 2040A/B Lecture 1: The Information Processing Perspective

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

The information processing perspective: memory and executive functions. I: competence-performance distinction: piaget: competence assessed directly from behaviour, criticisms leveled at piaget"s theory is that the task that he administered to children as his was of assessing their cognitive confidence might under estimate what they actually understand. Saw that infants dishabituated to impossible task: by the age of 6 months infants recognize that objects exist even if they do not see them. Need to examine performance factors that constrain the expression of infants" underlying competence. There are aspects of genitive development that seem to develop before piaget thought, but there are other things developing that allows infants knowledge to control their behavior in a meaningful way. Different than piaget, since he considered himself a philosopher: computer as a metaphor (e. g. , atkinson & shiffin"s store model) The mind can be compared to a computer. A computer has different systems that allow you to input different information into it (microphone, camera)