PSYC2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sensory Memory, Memory Span, Metacognition
9 Sep 2018
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Information-processing (ip) how we process information; mechanisms of change. Ip the major perspective in cognitive development in last 50+ years. Ip approach: humans are information-processing systems much like computers: we have hardware (storage capacity and processing speed) and software (processes, strategies) The mind/brain does not work like a computer. Yet the concepts and terminology of the computer have been applied to cognition. Most ip theories are based on the atkinson-shiffrin multistore model (1968) originally. Input must go through this system of stores in serial fashion a general theory of ip (recently modified for children) Also suggests change within each stage: due to increase in working memory capacity, brain development, practice with schemes and automization, central conceptual structures, a developmental ip theory. E(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)ary perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e o(cid:374) (cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:374)atural sele(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:895: generate a variety of strategies, selected strategies survive, others die off, a developmental ip theory. Originally a theory of memory we store information in 3 arts of the mental system for processing.
