PSYC 3440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cognitive Architecture, Briey, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3440
• Professor: Caron Bell

Document Summary

Repeatedly comparing one"s current state with one"s goal and then taking steps to reduce the distance between them. Like a child overcoming their limited memory capacities, they use rehearsal. Attempt to explain how children of given ages have come as far as they have and why they have not gone further. Change is produced by a process of continuous self-modi cation. Piagetian approach seeks to characterize children"s thinking across a broad range of tasks and content domains table on page 77. Determine the limits within which thinking occurs. Universal, all children have the same basic cognitive organization. Basic organization of the information processing system. (3 parts: sensory memory, working memory, and long term memory) Brie y retaining relatively large amounts of information that a person has just encountered. One-twentieth- second exposure is ef cient for letters to create a visual icon. The capacity of children"s sensory memory appears to increase with development and age.