PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Development, 18 Months, 6 Years
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October 8th, 2014: changes occur in the strategies which change cognition. Information from environment is processed, not just responded to. Encoding: taking in and storing information processed by series of systems o. Recoding: relevant information becomes mental representations simple or complex forms o. Decoding: meaning is deciphered compared to previously stored information o. Retrieve meaning and either match new information with old, or old information with new. Output: produces solution typically measureable/observable response o. Response behavioural in nature: involves a few important functions: attention and memory. Attention: child controls what to attend to from information he perceives, what aspects of the environment are most important to attend to. Atkinson and shiffrin"s (1968) store model: easy to follow and examine can be examined behaviourally and mathematically, unclear concepts: Memory capacity (especially regarding the short-term memory: closest concept is chunking but how much, sensory memory (sm): Quick storage of all incoming information: pre attentive we don"t notice it, it"s instinctive, capacity:
