PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Metamemory, Cognitive Flexibility, Information Processing
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Include cognitive inhibition (impulse control), cognitive flexibility, goal setting, and delay of gratification (ability to resist temptation) Working memory: retain information for a short period of time that you are actively processing. Organization: organizing memories in a way that helps you retrieve it more easily; age 10. Elaboration: more extensive processing of information; personal application to remember. External helps": ex. post it notes, writing a reminder on your hand; age 8. Remember an event more clearly if it is new/novel. Theory of mind: theory of mind: involves the ability to . Infer the existence of mental states and use them as an explanatory device for human behavior. Learn that they have their own thoughts, and that they can lie. False beliefs: having an understanding that people can have beliefs that are false, develops around age 4, research: false belief task. False belief tasks: sally-anne test (baron-cohen, leslie & frith, 1985, the smartie tube (wimmer & perner, 1983)
