PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Flexibility, Inhibitory Control Test, Frontal Lobe
6 Dec 2013
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Changes occur in the strategies which change cognition. Information from environment is processed, not just responded to. Cognitive development in the hardware and software components of the mind. Limitations in the amount and nature of information processed. Focus in problem-solving strategies people make reflection of fundamental processes. Child controls what to attend to from information he perceives. Devise plan of action reflective control. Selective attention direct attention to relevant and ignore irrelevant information. Craik & lockhart (1972) levels of processing - Information of retention is function of depth of processing. Hierarchy of processing from superficial to deep leads to memory traces. Development in processing that lead to individual differences. Other factors may play a role in performance. Executive control structures are developed at each stage: sensorimotor structures, inter-relational structures, dimensional structures, vectorial structures. The question of which is bigger? can be ambiguous. Examined kindergarteners and adults on a conservation task (i. e. , conservation of size).
