PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Episodic Memory, Prefrontal Cortex, Foal
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Based on approaches to cognitive development; originated in study of adult cognition. Human thinkers able to become more cognitively skilled through changes in their brains and sensory systems (hardware) and in the rules and strategies of thinking (software) that they learn over the course of development. Primary quality of human cognition system is flexibility to consider broad range of factors but result in 2 limitations: amount information that can be processed at a time, speed with which it can process. 4 assumptions that form the basis of an information-processing perspective: Thinking is information processing: mental activity involves taking information into the mind and operating on it in ways that make it usable. There are mechanisms or processes of change that underlie the processing of information: 4 key mechanisms: encoding, strategy construction, automatization, and generalization. Cognitive development is a self-modifying process: use strategies acquired from past problem solutions to modify response to new problem.
