PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Flexibility, Task Analysis, Cognitive Development
16 May 2019
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Precise specification of the processes involved in children"s thinking. Task analysis helps information-processing researchers understand and predict. Emphasis on thinking as a process that occurs over time. Emphasis on structure (organization of the cognitive system) and processes (specific. View of children"s nature change special transition periods between stages abruptly computation system limitations through: processing theories. Central developmental issue nature and nurture work together to produce development descriptions of how change occurs. Information-processing theorists view children as undergoing continuous cognitive. Important changes are viewed as constantly occurring, rather than being restricted to. Cognitive growth is viewed as typically occurring in small increments rather than. Underlying many information-processing theories is the metaphor of the child as a. Cognitive development arises from children"s gradually surmounting their processing. The child as problem solver the assumption that children are active problem solvers is central to information- Problem solving involves a goal, a perceived obstacle, and a strategy or rule.
