PSY BEH 101D Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Childhood Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory, Implicit Memory
28 Oct 2016
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What is information-processing approach, and how can it be applied to development: analyzes how individuals encode, manipulate, monitor and create strategies for handling information, effective information processing involves attention, memory, and thinking, siegler: Increased skill at encoding relevant and ignore irrelevant info. Automaticity: ability to process info with little or no effort. Strategy construction: creating of new procedures for processing information. Self-modification: apply what they learned to adapt to new demands. How does processing speed change developmentally: often influences what we can do with that info, processing speed increased with age, decline in middle adulthood, process speed linked with competence in thinking. How does attention develop in infancy: orienting/investigative process (locations, recognition, features, habituation/dishabituation. Joint attention: two or more individuals focus on the same object or event. How does attention develop in childhood and adolescence: attention improves in executive and sustained, deficient: Pay attention to stimuli that stand out, even when irrelevant. Not examining all details before making judgment.
