Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Metacognition, Memory Span, Synaptic Pruning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Jackie Sullivan

Document Summary

When the cognitive operation is complete, the information is used to make sense of their experiences & to problem solve. The store model, it focuses on general units of cognitive functioning, information in 3 parts of the mental system for processing: the sensory register; the short-term memory store & the long-term memory store. First, information enters the sensory register; here, a broad panorama of sights & sounds are represented directly but stored only momentarily. Way to assess working-memory capacity, a verbal memory-span task might ask children to repeat a sequence on numerical digits backwards; memorize a lost of words while also verifying the accuracy of simple math calculations, etc. Interventions are needed, effective approaches are communicating in short sentences with familiar vocab, repeating task instructions, asking children to repeat back crucial information to ensure they remember. Developmental increases in working-memory capacity in part reflects gains in processing speed.