PSYC 20651 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Error Detection And Correction, Cognitive Development, Working Memory
27 Feb 2019
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Information-processing approach: analyzes how children manipulate, monitor, and create strategies for handling information, cognitive development results from overcoming processing limitations. Cognitive resources: capacity and speed of processing information: both biology and experience contribute to growth in cognitive resources, capacity, processing speed, measured by reaction time. Attention what is attention: focusing on mental processes. Involves action planning, allocating attention to goals, error detection and compensation, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult circumstances. Individuals focus on the same object or event: requires, ability to track another"s behavior, one person directing another"s attention, reciprocal interaction. Adolescence: attention continues to improve in adolescence, executive attention and sustained focus improve, wide individual differences exist, multitasking abilities arise, self-oriented thoughts may interfere with focusing attention on tasks. Infancy first memories what we already know about it. Implicit memory: memories of skills and routine procedures that are performed automatically without consciousness recollection, explicit memory, conscious memory of facts and experiences.
