PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Flowchart, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Model
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There are two levels of analysis: how information is organized logically. Preposition, logical structure of steps of processing at the level of software: information maps onto flow chart (causal is hardware) Dominant metaphor in cognitive science , too much to make a computational machine and it is non developmental. The hardware level is : non-developmental, a running computer that doesn"t produce qualitative change, unable to add to its own competence. However the human brain can add to its own competence, and can"t exhaust its resources and therefore runs pre-careiously. It can burn resources but rations it carefully. Whereas the machine, uses all its energy and expends all its energy into processing. Relevance is about logistics of information rather than logics of information. The 9 dot system is a dynamical system, this requires constant re-designation. Improvement in each system, the software and the hardware increases the capacity of processing information.
