PSY312H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sensory Memory, Episodic Memory, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory
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Different subgoals that lead her to need the basement door open. The strategy used in this story was means ends analysis: repeatedly comparing one"s current stat with one"s goal and then taking steps to reduce the distance between them. To overcome limited memory capacities, children use rehearsal. To overcome limited knowledge, they use tools provided by the culture in which they live: dictionaries, encyclopedia, calculators, the internet, adults. There are many different information processing theories but they all share a few basic assumptions. Thinking is information processing: focus on the information that children represent, the processes that they apply to the information and the memory limits that constrain the amount of info they can represent and process. Cognitive growth is analyzed in terms of age related and experience related changes. Info processing analyses generally are more precise than those of stage approaches.
