PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Manual Transmission, Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory
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Week 7 chapter 9: cognitive development: the information-processing approach. Information processing approach: perspective = human mind is likened to a computer, processing info from environment through perception and attention (input), encoding it in memory (storage and retrieval) and applying info to solution of problems (software) Changes in brain and sensory systems (hardware), rules and strategies of thinking (software) Focused on gradual and quantitative changes in mental functioning. Human cognition system 2 main limitations: amt of info that can be processed at one time, speed which it can process info. Microgenetic analysis: a very detailed examination of how a child solves a problem. 4 key mechanisms of info processing: 1) encoding, 2) strategy construction, 3) automatization, 4) generalization. S: connectionist models: describe mental processes in terms of interconnections of the neural network = emphasize biological component, non-piagetian information-processing models: integrate paiget"s ideas w/info processing perspective describes development in 4 stages, each stage an increasingly sophisticated.
