PSYC 4230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Connectionism, Memory Span, Frontal Lobe
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Baddeley & hitch"s model of working memory. Chidlren: 2 yrs 2 items, 5 yrs 4 items, 7 yrs 5 items, 9 yrs 6 items. Memories exist on a continuum of clarity from verbatim to gist-like. Reduction to essence rule: people prefer to reason using gist-like information. As people make responses, output interference hinders subsequent responses. Young children have a preference for verbatim. Younger children"s greater reliance on verbatim info more interference and poorer memory. Around the time of primary school, preference shifts from verbatim to gist-like. Development is less stage-like and more gradual and continuous. Development is less global and more domain-specific. Piaget underestimates young children"s abilities and overestimates the abilities of children in the formal operational stage. His theory is the best naturalist guide to development. Drew attention to important questions and concepts still studied today. Changed people"s ideas about how active children were in their development.