EAR-20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Long-Term Memory, Critical Role, Language Acquisition
Document Summary
Computer information processing as a metaphor for human thinking. Difficult to single out any one approach as a prototype. In any information processing point of view, humans, like computers, have a limited capacity for taking in and operating on vast amount of information available to them. Changes in cognitive structures (memory) and processes (ex. strategies for decision making) are an essential component in explaining how older children might process information more fully and effectively than younger children. Distinct feature of this theory detailed efforts to explain exactly how the child comes to identify the letters of the alphabet, remember the multiplication tables and recall/remember the main ideas of a story. Cues from length of time it takes to solve various addition problems gives insight into the difference between retrieving information from long term memory vs utilizing a rule to determine the answer. Retrieving takes the same length for about all problems.
