PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Synaptic Pruning, Information Processing, Frontal Lobe
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Psych 2110 lecture #8 information processing. It is the theory that the human mind works much like a computer: it has hardware which are compared to be the brain structures and it has software which act rules and strategies. We input information, encode it, organize it, store it and can later retrieve it when needed. It is the efficiency with which children process information in their environments depends on the availability of cognitive. Biological influences are frontal lobe development, myelination and synaptic pruning. An example is a task switching experiment. You stop and think about what you"ve read before moving on. Automatically adjust performance in response to an external stimulus to drive your performance. An example is stopping at a red light. It predicts changes in upcoming cognitive load and adjust performance to meet its expect. Selective attention: the person focuses on one task and ignore the others. Divided attention: the person is able to focus on multiple tasks simultaneously.
